Hi,

Shelljs has been awesome so far, except for exec. I know how it works, with the write-to-a-temporary file loop, and I know that its a hack necessary due to the lack of child_process.execSync.

Unfortunately, exec has been very buggy for me, randomly not working on various developer and server machines. Usually it gets stuck in an endless loop. I never seem to be able to satisfyingly reproduce the issue or find the cause.

So I decided to give that up and write shelljs-ffi based on execsync-ng which in turn is based on node-ffi. execsync-ng is a fork of execSync that also works on windows.

You can check out these modules at https://github.com/doxout/shelljs and https://github.com/doxout/execSync or try them out: npm install shelljs-ffi execsync-ng

I know that a native module dependency such as node-ffi is probably unacceptable for shelljs. However I decided to ask anyway... Is it possible that this fork may be accepted into shelljs?