[MESOS-7970] Adding process::Executor::execute()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1
• Component/s: libprocess
• Sprint: Mesosphere Sprint 63, Mesosphere Sprint 64
• Story Points: 2
• Assignee: Chun-Hung Hsiao
• Reporter: Chun-Hung Hsiao
• Shepherd: Benjamin Hindman
• Created: 12/Sep/17 18:10
• Updated: 25/Sep/17 21:21
• Resolved: 25/Sep/17 21:21

Description

It would be easier to use process::Executor if we can add an execute() interface that runs a function asynchronously and returns a Future, so we do the following:

process::Executor executor;
executor.execute(f, a0 a1)
  .then(executor.defer(g));