> I question the general utility of this if you’re not in some way proxying for a user who’s expecting interactivity.
That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm developing a web server where the browser can be used as an interactive terminal. It's part of a bigger functionality so existing browser terminal emulators can't be used. Thanks for the reference to pty which is new to me. I just found this nodejs module which may do what I want. https://github.com/chjj/pty.js/ On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Aria Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 20 July 2013 at 2:14:06 PM, Mark Hahn ([email protected]) wrote: > > Is there anyway to spawn a process running a shell so I can send commands > in and get results back? Unlike normal spawn I'd like the process to not > exit and to keep the shell's environment. For example I'd like to be able > to send these to one process one line at a time > > x=hello > y=world > echo $x $y > > What you want is a pty under unix — to actually allocate a terminal and > talk to the shell interactively. It’s not trivial, since it becomes mixed > error and output streams, and it’s more like scripting an interactive > session. I question the general utility of this if you’re not in some way > proxying for a user who’s expecting interactivity. > > You can manipulate the environment in process and spawn normally to get > the equivalent of this — more like doing the shell parts yourself, and only > spawning commands you run — in general, this is a better approach. > > —Aria > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
