<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 31, 2013, at 2:01 PM, David Welton <<a href="mailto:davidnwelton@gmail.com">davidnwelton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I am wondering that there isn't a great way for managing and parsing subprocesses (through os:cmd/1) and their output.<br></blockquote><br>It does not seem to be of interest to the Erlang maintainers.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I spent some time with google and found erlexec which basically will do my job here. But it feels a bit cheesy to use an external module (or is it called application in erlang?) to use such a fundamental functionality.<br></blockquote><br>Erlexec works pretty well, and is actively developed.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Do not misunderstand me. My problem was that I could not find a way to get the exit status with erlang itself.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><br>--<br>David N. Welton<br><br><a href="http://www.welton.it/davidw/">http://www.welton.it/davidw/</a><br><br>http://www.dedasys.com/<br><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>