diff --git a/js/process.ts b/js/process.ts
index 0a1393ed099a7ec0b166d1f5b1037b86f252acad..50df88268697f5c3753c48f999149e516b6777d1 100644
--- a/js/process.ts
+++ b/js/process.ts
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 import * as dispatch from "./dispatch";
 import * as flatbuffers from "./flatbuffers";
 import * as msg from "gen/msg_generated";
-import { assert, unreachable } from "./util";
-import { close, File } from "./files";
+
+import { File, close } from "./files";
 import { ReadCloser, WriteCloser } from "./io";
+import { readAll } from "./buffer";
+import { assert, unreachable } from "./util";
 
 /** How to handle subsubprocess stdio.
  *
@@ -59,6 +61,21 @@ export class Process {
     return await runStatus(this.rid);
   }
 
+  /** Buffer the stdout and return it as Uint8Array after EOF.
+   * You must have set stdout to "piped" in when creating the process.
+   * This calls close() on stdout after its done.
+   */
+  async output(): Promise<Uint8Array> {
+    if (!this.stdout) {
+      throw new Error("Process.output: stdout is undefined");
+    }
+    try {
+      return await readAll(this.stdout);
+    } finally {
+      this.stdout.close();
+    }
+  }
+
   close(): void {
     close(this.rid);
   }
diff --git a/js/process_test.ts b/js/process_test.ts
index 6cba1a1b7a8dface22205701fbab8e26298c4828..ca2a4a64aed78d1b80bd489a62e85bedcae0753d 100644
--- a/js/process_test.ts
+++ b/js/process_test.ts
@@ -176,3 +176,14 @@ testPerm({ run: true }, async function runStderrPiped() {
   assertEqual(status.signal, undefined);
   p.close();
 });
+
+testPerm({ run: true }, async function runOutput() {
+  const p = run({
+    args: ["python", "-c", "import sys; sys.stdout.write('hello')"],
+    stdout: "piped"
+  });
+  const output = await p.output();
+  const s = new TextDecoder().decode(output);
+  assertEqual(s, "hello");
+  p.close();
+});