don't call into CombinedOutput
for subprocesses
#15
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The documentation for
exec.Cmd
says this aboutStdout
andStderr
:When calling
CombinedOutput()
,Stdout
andStderr
arebytes.Buffer
s and are therefore not*os.File
s so they fall intothis second group. This resulted in a race condition where cancelling
the context when
maxtime
has passed could causeCombinedOutput()
tohang indefinitely waiting for the (finished) subprocess to "finish"
writing to its pipes.
This has been reported as an issue several times. The tracking issue is
golang/go#23019 which itself links to several
other issues that are duplicates.
To work around the issue we simply force the other behavior by creating
a temporary
*os.File
for the combinedstdout
andstderr
.