Enhance dotenv run: Switch to execvpe for better resource management and signal handling #523
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…and signal handling
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Hello @theskumar @bbc2, |
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This look great! Merging in will be part of new release |
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@theskumar any chance you can cut a release soon that includes this PR? Spent three hours today hunting a ghost only to find that the signal I sent is swallowed by |
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By switching to os.execvpe instead of subprocess.Popen, we can replace the parent dotenv process with the new process specified by the user. This results in only one active process—the program the user intended to run.
Closes #522