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Bug 18687

Summary: Kill process under 1.4.0 beta 3 hangs IDE, causes runaway JDK spawning
Product: platform Reporter: Dallas Hockley <hockleyd>
Component: -- Other --Assignee: issues@platform <issues>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P1    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description Dallas Hockley 2001-12-15 23:26:04 UTC 
I've been developing a simple text game on netbeans since about the initial beta
of 3.3.  While running, I often have to terminate the process from the execution
window.  This was working fine up until the release candidate and before I could
confirm the problem, the final came out.  Sorry.  here's the overview:

Running the program, and the ide under JDK 1.4.0 Beta 3 on Linux Red Hat 7.2
when the program is running normall, and the right-click option of "Terminate
Process" is selected in the execution window (multi-window config for the IDE),
the ide spawns an infinite number of JDKs and never returns.  The only way to
stop this is to hard-kill the IDE and all the spawned JDKs.  This *seems* to
have been introduced around the time of the release candidate.  I've been
running on 1.4 Beta JDKs since I started for mouse scrolling support and general
GUI speed up.  

Sorry, but that's all the info I've got on this one.
Comment 1 _ ttran 2001-12-16 16:07:43 UTC 
I saw this happen with jdk 1.4 beta3 on Linux.  IMO definitely a bug
in the JVM.  It's not related to killing process but rather the
clipboard code in JVM which is triggered indirectly when the IDE kills
an external process.

We cannot do anything in NetBeans code.  If we'll be able to create a
testcase, we'll file a bug against JDK 1.4.
Comment 2 Quality Engineering 2003-07-01 16:00:49 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> verified.
Comment 3 Quality Engineering 2003-07-01 16:28:59 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.