On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 04:05:05 GMT, Leonid Mesnik <lmes...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/lib/jdk/test/lib/process/ProcessTools.java line 792:
>> 
>>> 790:         @Override
>>> 791:         public InputStream getInputStream() {
>>> 792:             return out;
>> 
>> This is a little bit confusing that the `getInputStream()` returns `out` 
>> stream.
>> Just wanted to double-check if it is intentional and was not needed for 
>> `getOutputStream()` instead.
>
> Agree, it is confusing, even in standard j.l.Process API . The `InputStream 
> java.lang.Process.getInputStream()`" returns **output** stream of started 
> process.  So for our implementation ProcessImpl the 'out' and 'err' mean 
> output and error streams. However they are returned as InputStreams so users 
> could read them.

Right. From the API caller's POV, it is asking for InputStreams that it can use 
to read the process' stdout or stderr streams.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13594#discussion_r1176718448

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