spawn(*args) public

Spawns the specified command on a newly allocated pty.

The command’s controlling tty is set to the slave device of the pty and its standard input/output/error is redirected to the slave device.

command_line

The full command line to run

command

The command to run, as a String.

args

Zero or more arguments, as Strings, representing the arguments to command

In the non-block form this returns an array of size three, [r, w, pid]. In the block form the block will be called with these as arguments, |r,w,pid|:

r

An IO that can be read from that contains the command’s standard output and standard error

w

An IO that can be written to that is the command’s standard input

pid

The process identifier for the command.

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