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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by Ewen Cheslack-Postava <ew...@confluent.io> on 2016/06/04 22:49:44 UTC

Re: Kafka Connect: fork process from a SinkTask ?

I can't think of anything that would break except that your connector may
not be able to run in some environments if certain syscalls are restricted.

-Ewen

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Dean Arnold <re...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to run an external filter program from a SinkTask. Is there anything
> that might break if I fork/exec in the start() method, and forward the data
> thru pipes ?
>
> TIA,
> Dean
>

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Thanks,
Ewen