Java - programmatically set exit code from SIGTERM

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Situation: I have a keep-alive shell script that restarts an application whenever it shuts down. However I do not want it to do this if the application was closed via a SIGTERM or SIGINT (kill, Ctrl+C, etc.) i.e. a shutdown hook. However I have no way of setting the exit code, hence communicating to the keep-alive script, when exiting from a shutdown hook as calling exit is illegal.

From Javadocs for exit:

If this method is invoked after the virtual machine has begun its shutdown sequence then if shutdown hooks are being run this method will block indefinitely. If shutdown hooks have already been run and on-exit finalization has been enabled then this method halts the virtual machine with the given status code if the status is nonzero; otherwise, it blocks indefinitely.

Is this possible?

NPE · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-03 18:13:12Z

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If the process has been killed by a signal, the $? variable will be set to 128 + signal:

bash$ sleep 3;echo $?
0

bash$ sleep 3;echo $?
^C
130

Here, 130 is 128 + SIGINT.

answered Jan 3, 2013 at 18:13

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xeruf Over a year ago

This works neither in bash nor inzsh for me :/

fge · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-03 18:21:30Z

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Grab the PID of the process in a variable and use the wait builtin: if the process has been terminated by a signal, the return code of wait will be 128 + the signal number.

#
# Note: output from shell trimmed
#
# Launch cat in the background, capture the PID
$ cat & PIDTOCHECK=$!
$ echo $PIDTOCHECK
27764
#
# Call wait a first time: the program is halted waiting for input (SIGTTIN)
#
$ wait $PIDTOCHECK ; echo $?
149
#
# Now kill cat, and call wait again
#
$ kill %1
$ wait $PIDTOCHECK ; echo $?
143

edited Jan 3, 2013 at 18:21

answered Jan 3, 2013 at 18:15

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Evgeniy Berezovsky · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-30 08:06:02Z

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Here's what I do:

Runtime.getRuntime().halt(0);

Note that this will exit the program immediately, so you need to do it after the last shutdown hook has finished.

answered Jun 30, 2020 at 8:06

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