This post gives a solution to retrieve the list of running processes under Windows. In essence it does:
String cmd = System.getenv("windir") + "\system32" + "tasklist.exe";
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream());
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(isr);
then reads the input.
It looks and works great but I was wondering if there is a possibility that the charset used by tasklist might not be the default charset and that this call could fail?
For example this other question about a different executable shows that it could cause some issues.
If that is the case, is there a way to determine what the appropriate charset would be?
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