'inherit' rather than 'pipe' stdio streams #36
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This commit is intended to be a report and a suggestion, I'm not versed about this utility neither about your plans on improving it. I've found useful to run the child giving it direct access to parent's stdio streams (through 'inherit') rather than piping them. I was developing an interactive command line utility that makes use of `process.stdin.setRawMode` so I needed access to the tty stream in the child. With this little change `runjs` runs perfectly as expected. My cli thinks it's executed directly on a terminal, and each time a file is modified the cli is restarted. With the bind to 'exit' event, when the cli process finishes the runjs process finishes too, so there's no need of killing it manually with `Ctrl^C`. Congratulations for this tool and its clean code, a quick read allowed me to know where I had to type. Cheers L.
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Have you been able to figure out why inheriting the stdio makes letters show up really slowly in the child? I want to use it this way (and run.js 2.0 will use it this way) I'm just sad that it messes up user typing :( |
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This commit is intended to be a report and a suggestion, I'm not versed about this utility neither about your plans on improving it.
I've found useful to run the child giving it direct access to parent's stdio streams (through 'inherit') rather than piping them.
I was developing an interactive command line utility that makes use of
process.stdin.setRawModeso I needed access to the tty stream in the child.With this little change
runjsruns perfectly as expected. My cli thinks it's executed directly on a terminal, and each time a file is modified the cli is restarted.With the bind to 'exit' event, when the cli process finishes the runjs process finishes too, so there's no need of killing it manually with
Ctrl^C.Congratulations for this tool and its clean code, a quick read allowed me to know where I had to type.
Cheers
L.