Re: Keep a shell open?

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

Russell Haley wrote on 1/26/2018 12:16 AM:
> Is it possible to open a shell in a coroutine and just interact with
> it when I need it?
>
> So in a coroutine, I would just open it and then read and write then yield?
You imply you want asynchronous reads and writes here...?

Anyway, my go to, now called osprocess [1], for dealing with process 
input and output is based on the old lua-ex module. I have used it with 
success for years.

-Josh

[1] 
https://github.com/jjensen/luaplus51-all/tree/master/Src/Modules/osprocess