Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
Additionaly, in a complex application you may want a particular descriptor to be passed through one exec(), and not passed through another.
Well, you have all the building blocks you need to write a function that will do just that. It shouldn't take more than a few lines of code.
So my initial question changes to: would it be useful to have an extended version of runInteractiveProcess with options for using non-standard behaviour and things like setsid(2)? Did anyone other than us wanted such functionality?
If you want to manipulate sessions and stuff like that, you're deep in
application-specific territory, not to mention POSIX specificity. The
libraries already provide the basic pieces that you need; I don't see
much value in cooking some particular combination of them into a
"blessed" library function.