//! This is a conceptually simple example that spawns the `whoami` program //! to print your username. It is made more complex because there are multiple //! pipes involved and it is easy to get blocked/deadlocked if care and attention //! is not paid to those pipes! use portable_pty::{CommandBuilder, NativePtySystem, PtySize, PtySystem}; fn main() { let pty_system = NativePtySystem::default(); let pair = pty_system .openpty(PtySize { rows: 24, cols: 80, pixel_width: 0, pixel_height: 0, }) .unwrap(); let cmd = CommandBuilder::new("whoami"); let mut child = pair.slave.spawn_command(cmd).unwrap(); // Release any handles owned by the slave: we don't need it now // that we've spawned the child. drop(pair.slave); let mut reader = pair.master.try_clone_reader().unwrap(); // We hold handles on the pty. Now that the child is complete // there are no processes remaining that will write to it until // we spawn more. We're not going to do that in this example, // so we should close it down. If we didn't drop it explicitly // here, then the attempt to read its output would block forever // waiting for a future child that will never be spawned. drop(pair.master); // Consume the output from the child let mut s = String::new(); reader.read_to_string(&mut s).unwrap(); // We print with escapes escaped because the windows conpty // implementation synthesizes title change escape sequences // in the output stream and it can be confusing to see those // printed out raw in another terminal. print!("output: "); for c in s.escape_debug() { print!("{}", c); } // Note that we're waiting until after we've read the output // to call `wait` on the process. // On macOS Catalina, waiting on the process seems to prevent // its output from making it into the pty. println!("child status: {:?}", child.wait().unwrap()); }