Re: io.popen documentation?

[Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@...>]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:14:34 -0500
"Aaron Brown" <aaron-lua@oakadaptive.com> wrote:

> Manfred Lotz wrote:
> 
> > However, I couldn't find any documentation of io.popen in
> > the reference manual.
> 
> To my knowledge, there is no official documentation.  Since
> this function is not supported by all platforms, it is
> something of a "poor relation".
> 
> In case you didn't see it, I posted a brief description of
> io.popen with sample code to this list a few days ago:
> 
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-11/msg00071.html
> 

Yes, I didn't see it. Thanks.

Tried it out. At least on my platform (FreeBSD 6.0) ErrStr isn't used
in case an error happens. The error message just goes to stderr



-- 
Manfred


The deficiency will never show itself during the test runs.