On 21 September 2012 12:40, James Coglan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to have my command-line Node program invoke another interactive
> shell program (in this case w3m, but think vim, less, and so on) as a child
> process so that it appears in my terminal. I thought I could do that like
> this:
>
> require('child_process').execFile('w3m', ['http://www.google.com'],
> {stdio: 'inherit'})
>

Turns out I can do what I want using spawn() instead of execFile(). I don't
quite understand why from the docs -- someone care to enlighten me as to
what's going on with processes and I/O streams and what the difference is
between the two functions?

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