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[Jacob Lifshay]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 05:09 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> On Friday, April 10, 2020, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was planning on using the program invocation functionality in the Rust
> > standard library:
> > https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/process/struct.Command.html
>
>
> yeah that looks overkill (expect capability builtin) however the interface
> looks pretty clean and the output() function has both stdout and stderr
> capturable.
>

The idea is to expose all the commonly used functionality in a
cross-platform manner, there are extension traits that add additional
functionality for Unix or Windows.

Unix extension trait:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/os/unix/process/trait.CommandExt.html

>
> also the command return result (exit code) is available, which is important
> to use the convention "0" as success and all nonzero values to be err
> logged.
>
> one thing is not obvious, if it is sync or async.
>

Depends on which functions you use if they are blocking, though it is not
async in the sense of Futures.

Jacob