Re: whatever happened to io.popen() ?

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Support for pipes has been removed because it's not ANSI. (See recent reports
> on problems with popen and pclose.) The natural place for pipes is the POSIX
> library, which perhaps we should add to the standard distribution.

Surely the same is true of the so/DLL loading functions?  Have they been 
removed too?  (I seem to recall that there were special-cases in the code for 
dealing with specific OSes, too.)

I regret seeing popen leave the base - it's just too useful.

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