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? -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
