Process sometimes hangs while waiting for Exit

Question

What may be the reason of my process hanging while waiting for exit?

This code has to start powershell script which inside performs many action e.g start recompiling

Answer 1

The problem is that if you redirect StandardOutput and/or StandardError the internal buffer can become full.

To solve the issues aforementioned you can run the process in separate threads. I do not use WaitForExit, I utilize the process exited event which will return the ExitCode of the process asynchronously ensuring it has completed.

public async Task RunProcessAsync(params string[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource();

            var process = new Process
            {
                StartInfo = {
                    FileName = 'file path',
                    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                    RedirectStandardError = true,
                    Arguments = "shell command",
                    UseShellExecute = false,
                    CreateNoWindow = true
                },
                EnableRaisingEvents = true
            };


            process.Exited += (sender, args) =>
            {
                tcs.SetResult(process.ExitCode);
                process.Dispose();
            };

            process.Start();
            // Use asynchronous read operations on at least one of the streams.
            // Reading both streams synchronously would generate another deadlock.
            process.BeginOutputReadLine();
            string tmpErrorOut = await process.StandardError.ReadToEndAsync();
            //process.WaitForExit();


            return await tcs.Task;
        }
        catch (Exception ee) {
            Console.WriteLine(ee.Message);
        }
        return -1;
    }

The above code is battle tested calling FFMPEG.exe with command line arguments. I was converting mp4 files to mp3 files and doing over 1000 videos at a time without failing. Unfortunately I do not have direct power shell experience but hope this helps.