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The LuaX mail I wrote last night tells that those modules, including 'lib.sys' which has pretty much what you are after (don't forget ms level timings ;) will eventually come out as Lua native compilable thingies.
If you want, we can already start working on that (hmm.. will late this week do?) That would definately be better than starting from scratch, at least.
Also, LuaCheia had its own system module, developed about at the same time as LuaX 'sys' (looong ago!) 

-asko


Mildred kirjoitti 30.4.2006 kello 6.40:


Hi,

I'm searching for a lua module that would be cross platform for the
main desktop OS that would provide all basic functions that I need
without the the neeed to require some others modules.
Does something like that exists or do I have to create it ?

Something that would implement
- all filesystem functions (like file_exists, is_dir, is_file,
file_type, mkdir_recursive, mdir_recursive, unlink, rmdir and some
others)
- some way to communicate between programms (I know there are
fifos on unix but what about Windows ?) and to fork even on Windows
- all input/output functions, bufferized or not.
- an exception system for lua (I already have my module for that :)

Something I don't understand is for example why there is os.remove
and os.rename functions but not mkdir, rmdir (which are in
luafilesystem) and copy (can't find this one). Why do I need 3 modules
to handle filesystem (the standard os, luafilesystem and a home made
to have is_file, file_exists, copy, ...) ?

I think actually it's easy to write cross platform in python (for
example) since there are the cross platform batteries included. But in
lua, because I have to create them myself, and because I only have
linux, my programms can't be that easily ported to others platforms.
I'm searching for those batteries for Lua.

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