Pipe output directly

Fixes #68.
petruisfan · Sep 10, 2012 · fd105ac · fd105ac
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commit fd105ac
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/lib/supervisor.js b/lib/supervisor.js
@@ -186,9 +186,12 @@ function help () {
 function startProgram (prog, exec) {
   util.debug("Starting child process with '" + exec + " " + prog.join(" ") + "'");
   crash_queued = false;
-  var child = exports.child = spawn(exec, prog);
+  var child = exports.child = spawn(exec, prog, {stdio: 'inherit'});
-  child.stdout.addListener("data", function (chunk) { chunk && util.print(chunk); });
+  if (child.stdout) {
-  child.stderr.addListener("data", function (chunk) { chunk && util.debug(chunk); });
+    // node < 0.8 doesn't understand the 'inherit' option, so pass through manually
+    child.stdout.addListener("data", function (chunk) { chunk && util.print(chunk); });
+    child.stderr.addListener("data", function (chunk) { chunk && util.debug(chunk); });
+  }
   child.addListener("exit", function (code) {
     if (!crash_queued) {
       util.debug("Program " + exec + " " + prog.join(" ") + " exited with code " + code + "\n");