Improvements to reading Process outputs: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 5

This is the fifth post in the series: Exploring the .NET 11 preview. Part 1 - Running background tasks in Blazor with Web WorkersPart 2 - .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types🎉Part 3 - Avoiding ToString() allocations with StringBuilder.MoveChunksPart 4 - Closed class hierarchiesPart 5 - Improvements to reading Process outputs (this post) In this post I talk about some of the important updates to the Process APIs in .NET 11. Adam Sitnik has been working on a whole load of improvements, improving both the "simple" scenarios (such as running a process and reading the output), as well as adding new features (such as fire-and-forget or kill on parent exit). This work all builds on top of fundamental features introduced in early .NET 11 previews. In this post, I talk about the improvements made to reading child-process output, as these improvements are a great way to avoid some critical failures like deadlocks. I look at how you need to handle it in .NET 100, how it works in .NET 11, and…