Java ProcessBuilder: Resultant Process Hangs

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If the process writes to stderr or stdout, and you’re not reading it – it will just “hang” , blocking when writing to stdout/err. Either redirect stdout/err to /dev/null using a shell or merge stdout/err with redirectErrorStream(true) and spawn another thread that reads from stdout of the process

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