Re: os.execute is scary; Jay rants about strings again (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] lua stdlibs release: now Lua 5 compatible)

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> > Would that stop you needing to use the shell?
>
> Yeah.  The notional popen2.lua would fork and execve the child process
> attached through file descriptors.  The posix module then implements
> posix.fdopen(fd, mode) in terms of luaIO_filecreate, and then returns a
> filehandle userdata to the caller.

Since that would obviate the need for scary shellery, that seems a better
route to go (and another good reason to add some openness to iolib).

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