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What is the purpose of the `process_executor` binary? All the commands seem to be run through `StreamedHermeticCommand`s via Nodes.

It’s there to make it easy to manually test the code without needing to cycle through pants

It’s not actually used by pants :slightly_smiling_face:

But being able to say `process_executor -- /bin/hostname` and trace through the code is really useful :slightly_smiling_face:

makes sense for testing, thanks :slightly_smiling_face: