Re: Feature request for 5.2; make exit codes from popen()ed programs obtainable

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Patrick Donnelly<batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:
> This has been discussed [1]. There were some hacks proposed for
> obtaining the status code in that thread. It would be nice if popen
> returned the status code. I feel it should be a second argument,
> however, because popen may fail early with "nil, <failure string>".

Knew I forgot something...

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-06/msg00124.html

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