Basically the title. I don't want to merge the stdout and stderr, I just want to be able to run a function over their buffers and then print them to the host's stdout and stderr, respectively. Is there a stdlib-based "select"-y kind of operation?
Wouldn't this be more like a map than a select? (Where map changes each element in an iterator and select composes concurrency primitives by picking the earliest one to become ready)
As far as I know, you have to spawn a thread to do this.
If you're willing to relax stdlib requirement, you could use tokio::process rather than std::process
without having to, at least explicitly, spawn a separate thread.
Here's an example code that spawns a child process which writes to stdout and stderr, transforms its output, and then forwards that transformed output to the host stdout and stderr: Rust Playground
In tokio's default configuration, it will probably launch some work threads. However, this code would fundamentally still work with tokio's single-threaded runtime. It would be on you to make sure that you yield to tokio's runtime every so often so that it can process new messages from the child process.
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