Thanks to
Nicholas Guriev,
dotenv-cli now uses
exec instead of
popen to create the new process on
POSIX systems.
As a
refresher, dotenv-cli is a package that
provides the
dotenv command.
dotenv reads the
.env file from the current
directory, puts the contents in the environment variables, and executes the
given command with the extra environment variables set.
dotenv comes in handy if you follow the
12 factor app
methodology or just need to run a program locally with specific environment
variables set.
With this new change, when you call
instead of forking a new process for
my_awesome_tool, effectively creating a
child process of
dotenv,
dotenv now uses
exec to become the new
process. This is a bit cleaner, as there is no longer a
dotenv-process
running that you don t actually care about, and less-error prone when trying to
send signals such as
SIGTERM to the processes that runs
my_awesome_tool.
Unfortunately,
exec does not work properly under Windows, so here we still
fall back to using
popen.
This new feature is available in version 3.2.0 which is available on
PyPI
and
debian/unstable.
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: