Re: whatever happened to io.popen() ?

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Surely the same is true of the so/DLL loading functions?
>
>
> The difference is that with these functions you can load any other
> non-portable function that you need (such as popen). They provide a
> minimum non-portable functionallity we need to load all others.

Is there a clean way of creating new handles that'll work with the other 
functions in the io library, such that one could write an extension and put it 
in such a library?  If so, where is it documented?  (A quick skim of the 
manual doesn't seem to mention anything useful on the subject.)

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