Thank you very much! I added:
builder.redirectError(new File("/dev/null"));
That fixed the problem.
Thank you!
Blake
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 8:30 AM Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi Blake,
>
> > I passed an errant file to groff through java and the process is
> > hanging.
>
> I've never used Java, but I expect it's waiting for you to process some
> of the large amount of output from the program to stderr before it
> proceeds to read more. This blocks tbl(1) when it tries to write to
> stderr. Look into what those Java routines are doing with the command's
> stdout and stderr and whether there are any default buffer sizes being
> exceeded by stderr. Here, tbl prints 265,419 B to stderr, which is
> suspiciously a bit over 256 KiB.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
>
