I assume this is still the best place? This was posted by Luke Gorrie on the
Pharo #general Discord channel, which I guess David will never see…


> OSProcess is not working out that well for me. I know exactly what system
> calls I want to make (read, write, select/poll, etc) and when I want to
> make them. The challenge is working out how to make the object-oriented
> interface do what I want. For example I was totally surprised yesterday
> that process upToEnd only returns output that was previously read from the
> process somehow and does not actually check for new output.
> It's also unhelpful that many of the convenience methods, like
> outputAndError, can deadlock because they are just not written correctly
> with respect to how Unix works e.g. that you have to read from stdout and
> stderr in parallel and can't do one to completion and then the other.
> I don't like to complain because obviously a lot of work goes into the
> framework but I don't think it is really the right tool for the job for my
> own application. Could be more suitable if I were running many processes
> and piping them together in Smalltalk, in the spirit of a Unix shell, etc.
> But I am just running one subprocess at a time and processing its output
> stream.

Also the question was raised whether OSP is still actively maintained for
Pharo.

Thanks!



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