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 <renodino...@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 > -- Thanks, Ewen