I'm writing a function that exec's a program and returns stdout and stderr. It also has the option to display the output to the console. I'm clearly not waiting on something, as if I run the function twice in a row, the outputs are different. Here's a sample program, replace the dir var with a dir with a lot of files to fill up the buffers:
func main() {
dir := "SOMEDIRECTORYWITHALOTOFFILES"
out, err := run("ls -l "+dir, true)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("run returned %s", err)
}
log.Printf("Out: %s", out)
out2, err := run("ls -l "+dir, false)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("run returned %s", err)
}
log.Printf("Out2: %s", out2)
if out != out2 {
log.Fatalf("Out mismatch")
}
}
func run(cmd string, displayOutput bool) (string, error) {
var command *exec.Cmd
command = exec.Command("/bin/sh", "-c", cmd)
var output bytes.Buffer
stdout, err := command.StdoutPipe()
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("Unable to setup stdout for command: %v", err)
}
go func() {
if displayOutput == true {
w := io.MultiWriter(os.Stdout, &output)
io.Copy(w, stdout)
} else {
output.ReadFrom(stdout)
}
}()
stderr, err := command.StderrPipe()
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("Unable to setup stderr for command: %v", err)
}
go func() {
if displayOutput == true {
w := io.MultiWriter(os.Stderr, &output)
io.Copy(w, stderr)
} else {
output.ReadFrom(stderr)
}
}()
err = command.Run()
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
return output.String(), nil
}