Re: lua-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 41

[Richard Geary <richardg.work@...>]

Message: 12
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:32:06 -0200
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Subject: Re: os.execute returns mangled exit code on linux
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Message-ID: <20130119003205.GA587@magritte.tecgraf.puc-rio.br">20130119003205.GA587@magritte.tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
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> This was first mentioned on the mailing list in 2004, but the bug still
> exists today :
> print( os.execute("exit 1") )
> 256

In both Mac OS X and Linux I get this with Lua 5.2.1:

% lua
Lua 5.2.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print( os.execute("exit 1") )
nil     exit    1

Apologies, you're right it's fixed. I didn't read luaL_execresult.