Missing functionality - how to run command in background

[robooo]

I needed to run command (binary) in the background which will run during the k6 execution and found that (probably because of exec.Command) it will wait forever if I run it like:

console.log(exec.command("mycmd", ["&"]));

I found one way which is working for me as a workaround:

console.log(exec.command("bash",  ["-c", "setsid mycmd >/dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null &"]));  

but this way I'm loosing all logs or info about the activity.

Does it make sense to include handling of background task functionality into this library?

[pablochacin]

Does it make sense to include handling of background task functionality into this library?

@robooo Do you have a proposal for the API? I'm not sure how we could expose the output from this background process, or detect its finalization (or force the finalization when the test ends)

[robooo]

@pablochacin sorry I wrote like 0 lines in golang but found this:
https://github.com/takama/daemon
maybe this can be integrated?

[pablochacin]

@robooo this daemon package is interesting, thanks for sharing. However I'm still unsure about how to integrate running a background process in the exec API:

I'm not sure how we could expose the output from this background process, or detect its finalization (or force the finalization when the test ends)