porcelain

Here's an example you can try on any Linux System running procfs. https://gist.github.com/amorphid/4a65741d14db38b96341d7e1f2d... The short version is I'm passing a variable in via the pid's standard in, reading the line, and then declaring the variable. This is a very contrived example :) But you can write a wrapper script that would handle all of the line reading for you. This originally came up when I was asking someone how to pass sensitive information (API keys, passwords, etc.). I did some research, and found this approach. In most programming languages, for basic system calls, you basically just call a command, that command runs, and then exits. But sometimes you want a script that can take information from standard in, or send it to you from standard out. Like you may write a script that runs for a few minutes, then says "OK,

Agree with what you have said but check out porcelain + goon (which is written in go) for handling external processes [1] - it's really great. [1] https://github.com/alco/porcelain Also erlport looks interesting: http://erlport.org/docs/python.html