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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Japa <greatjapa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
> I'm a new user of Lua and I am using luaforwindows. I need some library that
> implements a fork function, I looked for some library already in
> luaforwindows that help me but I did not find, is there any? I thought to
> use lposix but I don't know how to install in my version of
> luaforwindows, someone help me? I'm using windows xp, Visual C++ 2005 and
> luaforwindows 5.1.4.23.
> --
> Japa


Look at LuaEx. (require( "ex" )). It has ex.spawn() that might  give
you what you want. I am pretty sure that lposix is not cross-platform,
so it won't work on Windows. Plus it is included in LfW (Lua for
Windows).

P.S. LuaLanes is also included in LfW too!
-- 
Regards,
Ryan