Hey! I did a quick search on this channel about asynchronous and coroutine safe subprocesses, and I ...

# coroutines

[Tmpod]

Hey! I did a quick search on this channel about asynchronous and coroutine safe subprocesses, and I didn't find anything relevant. Any suggestions on how to achieve this properly? (thinking of Python's asyncio.create_subprocess_shell)

[Dennis]

What do you want to do with that?

[Tmpod]

trying to use ffsend (https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend)

[Dennis]

So you just want to spawn a process and get the output?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35421699/how-to-invoke-external-command-from-within-kotlin-code/41495542 There are a couple of options for JVM and even native.

[Tmpod]

But isn't that threaded? Meaning it will halt my coroutine context if I use it?

[CLOVIS]

Kotlinx.io has announced that feature I believe, however it's far from being ready (at least according to their README)