Re: whatever happened to io.popen() ?

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

Still.. even we've been here a 1000 times.

'popen' is closed the same was as regular 'open'.  They're FILE* 
handles.  It'd be N times harder to stab that from outside, than have 
it there.

-ak

2.9.2004 kello 19:49, Roberto Ierusalimschy kirjoitti:

 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.
>
> -- Roberto