Re: Loving coroutines & Posix shell help

[Valerio Schiavoni <valerio.schiavoni@...>]

Maybe you cab use one of the many Lua posix libraries.



Il giorno 22/lug/2010, alle ore 13.30, Patrick <spell_gooder_now@spellingbeewinnars.org 
> ha scritto:

> I am writing my first program that utilizes corountines and I think  
> they are great. Unfortunately they are not supported in so many  
> other languages and other places such as the shell. I am writing a  
> program that generates graphs as PNGs, encodes them into a video and  
> plays them with mplayer,  to generate a live plot and a recording of  
> activity. This is all done on the fly.
>
> The problem is I am using to os.execute calls for mencoder and  
> mplayer and things are not working reliably. I would like to be able  
> to control these last two programs but once a system call is made I  
> can't figure out how to throttle the processes it has generated.  
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how this could be achieved? I  
> have not used io.popen, I can't seem to find much documentation on  
> it but I am assuming the processes called by it will still run as  
> fast as they can.
>
> -- Patrick