[whatwhatwhat]

I don't think it would be too many lines of code, tbh http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.0/api/all.html#child_process.exe...

[iter8n]

child_process.exec is different from n*x system exec. Node is still doing the fork()ing and exec()ing behind the scenes. Exposing those calls in node would give you direct access to the child process before executing your commands.