Executing C-program inside Java

Hello, my situation is that I am using an open source which is written in C.
I execute this program using the following code.
        Process proc=null;
        try{
            proc=Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmds);
            System.out.println("Execute");
        catch(IOException ioex){
            System.out.println(ioex);
        try{
            proc.waitFor();
        catch(InterruptedException irex){
            System.out.println(irex);
        if(proc.exitValue()==0){
            System.out.println("The command is normally and sucessfully terminated.");
        }where the "cmds" is a normal command line argument using for executing the open source program.
For example,
prompt>./osprogram<input_file

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