waitforstarted returning true on a false command

Dijkstra

so i am starting a qprocess with a wrong command to check if my error handeling is correct my problem is waitforstarted function returns true and the process have a pid for a moment is that normal

jsulm

@Dijkstra From the documentation: "Note: On some UNIX operating systems, this function may return true but the process may later report a QProcess::FailedToStart error."
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qprocess.html#waitForStarted
On what OS are you?

Dijkstra

@jsulm ubuntu

connect(&plugin_process, &QProcess::errorOccurred, [=](QProcess::ProcessError error)
    {
        qDebug() << "error running " <<getname()<<' '<< error << endl;
        if(processed_frames<get_frames())
            emit(error_stop());
        return;
    });
    plugin_process.start("/bin/bash",QStringList() << "-c" << runCmd);
    bool started=plugin_process.waitForStarted();
    if(!started){
        std::cout<<"failed to start process"<<std::endl;
        emit(error_stop());
        return;
    }

and this is what i am talking about this command will run a json file that doesnt exist my problem is that the error is not catched and the waitforstarted returns true

jsulm

@Dijkstra You're starting bash, so why should that fail? That the application running in bash fails doesn't matter as your QProcess is starting bash...

JonB

@Dijkstra said in waitforstarted returning true on a false command:

will run a json file

[In addition to @jsulm, who is absolutely correct about the bash will run.] What do you mean by "run" a JSON file? JSON files are data, they don't "run" or "execute" anyway. Till we know what you actually mean it's hard to suggest a solutuon.

Dijkstra

@jsulm the process ends immediatly and the pid doesnt exist anymore but for a brief second their is a pid should i delay a second before checking the pid ? or what do you think should be done

jsulm

@Dijkstra There is no issue: it behaves as it should. You start bash and ask it to start a non-existent app. That means the process starts successfully (bash), but bash cannot execute what you asked it to execute, so it terminates. So, I don't know what you want to do now...

Dijkstra

@JonB not a json file sorry i am running a certain exe file on my system that takes a json file

JonB

@Dijkstra said in waitforstarted returning true on a false command:

@JonB not a json file sorry i am running a certain exe file on my system that takes a json file

OK, that's better! And as I imagined. The problem is: the lack of a data file for some executable is not going to cause any kind of QProcess::errorOccurred. The executable will start fine, then it will issue an error message and exit with a non-zero status (if it's well-behaved). So anything to do with QProcess::waitForStarted() is never going to tell you that. Hence why I asked. That is only going to be detectable by examining the exit code after completion.

[I assume by "this command will run a json file that doesnt exist " you meant the JSON file does not exist, not the command/executable does not exist. Whereas @jsulm is taking you to say the reverse. But who knows, since you don't make that clear.]

If you want help on this, you had better give the command you're actually running and explain what you want to trap/test for.....