Background command blocks on stdout

[Janzert]

A command set to run in the background (or with cmd.popen) will block after filling its stdout buffer until .wait() is called.

I'm not sure there is a way to fix this. Just adding a warning in the documentation might be the best that can be done.

[tomerfiliba]

adding it to the docs is a good start. alternatively, you can read the process' stdout in chunks, like communicate does, or run it in a background thread that consumes the output. for instance, when a command is run with the & BG modifier, you can add it to a queue that a background thread processes, similarly to the timeout thread.

if you'd like to send a patch (pull request) for any of these options - please do

[Vad1mo]

All the links are a dead. Some info or examples on how to monitor the bg thread and its output would be very helpful.

I need to start a process in the background and monitor its output for a specific string if it's not there, restart the process.

[henryiii]

I've fixed the 10-year-old links above by locking them to v1.0.0.