Being Multithreaded is a requirenment. The main problem is when to return. What if the called application runs for say 2.5 hours? $exec couldnt simply return the data from the pipe becasue it doesnt know when the application is finished writing to it.
That said, A multithreaded version would be a nice idea. Wouldnt it make more sense to just use $run instead of adding a new identifier? Since run already runs an external app $run might make more sense.
