Use syscall.Exec instead of cmd.Run in non-windows environment #77
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Using exec is better in this case as it makes the process tree simpler, and allows the child's signals to be handled by the caller. In addition the `Exec` function has been removed as it's not really great as a library function. Users should manually call the `Load` function and run `exec.Command` or `syscall.Exec` appropriately. In the future we probably want to handle signals for Windows anyway. This is based on joho/godotenv#77 and also addresses the following PRs in upstream: - joho/godotenv#119
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syscall.Execmakes the process tree simpler and is useful when you want the child process to handle the signal.For example, the
direnvprogram internally usessyscall.Exec.https://github.com/direnv/direnv/blob/5b8f7d0ade4248e04899015e8628408b6f4becf3/cmd_exec.go#L67
How about it?