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<p>Convenience functions that encapsulate a sequence of
start_command() followed by finish_command(). The argument argv
specifies the program and its arguments. The argument opt is zero
or more of the flags <code>RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN</code>, <code>RUN_GIT_CMD</code>,
<code>RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR</code>, or <code>RUN_SILENT_EXEC_FAILURE</code>
that correspond to the members .no_stdin, .git_cmd,
.stdout_to_stderr, .silent_exec_failure of <code>struct child_process</code>.
The argument di