Re: ex API

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Mark Edgar wrote:
> ...
> I don't see how pipe() and system() work together.  Maybe you mean 
> popen(), which is kind of a cross between pipe() and system(), handling 
> the common cases of writing to a process's stdin, and reading from a 
> process's stdout.  With both io.pipe() and os.spawn(), one could write a 
> pure Lua implementation of io.popen().

Yes, sorry, I meant that sometimes I find popen() to be useful for 
executing external programs, and at other times I find system() useful 
for that purpose.

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