func newCmd()

in client/local_notwindows.go [25:38]

• 7 lines of code
• 1 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

func newCmd(args []string) *exec.Cmd {
	cmd := exec.Command(args[0], args[1:]...)

	// Set a process group ID so that later we can kill child processes too. As an
	// example, if the command is `go run main.go`, Go will build a binary in a
	// temp dir and then execute it. If we simply cmd.Process.Kill() the exec.Command
	// then the running binary will not be killed. Only if we make a group and then
	// kill the group will child processes be killed.
	cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{
		Setpgid: true,
	}

	return cmd
}