Re: io.popen read and write, again

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated:
> 
> Thoughts? Suggestions?

  Ideally, you want to actually construct the pipe yourself so you can grab
the return code from the initial process.  Yes, this means calling pipe()
and fork() and wait() and the mess that entails, but that way, you get total
control over the results.

  -spc