Re: whatever happened to io.popen() ?

[tuler@...]

This is true. I´ve implemented two such "clones" so far. One for luazip and 
the other for windows I/O (CreateFile, etc). 

"The must be a more elegant way to do this rather than cut and
paste the io library each time an io variant is required." :-) 

> I have been thinking about this for sometime with no progress.
> The requirement is aptly demonstrated by CGILua which has at
> least one *clone* of the io library in lfgci.c. 
>
> It would also be good if the io library implementation allowed for
> adaption to using open/read/write/close. 
>
> The must be a more elegant way to do this rather than cut and
> paste the io library each time an io variant is required. 
>
> > > Or actually, a step better than that - abstract the whole lot so it's
> > > easy for people to create IO methods that use the same interface? 
> >
> > That would be nice. Suggestions? 
> >
> > -- Roberto 
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