os/exec: provide better support for creating pipelines #11164
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I have some time to look into this. @Sajmani can the external packages mentioned in your initial comment still be seen as "good" to address your concerns? Are there any current ideas about what the main pain-points still are and in which direction to go? |
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Are there any current ideas about what the main pain-points still are and in which direction to go? |
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@vladimirvivien recently announced automi, which looks interesting: |
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Creating pipelines using os/exec is somewhat tedious. There are a couple of good external packages that provide higher-level interfaces:
http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/pipe.v2
http://godoc.org/github.com/ghemawat/stream
Brad asked me to file an issue to think about making this better for Go 1.6.
Related: it's common to want the text of stderr on failure, but not as CombinedOutput. The pipe package calls this DividedOutput: http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/pipe.v2#DividedOutput
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