Re: obtaining process exit code from popen()

["John D. Blair" <jdb@...>]

Its where I'm headed anyway, so I would appreciate seeing how you've
done it.

 -john.

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 15:48 -0400, Joseph Stewart wrote:
> I've hacked the use of pclose() in the standard libraries in the past
> to obtain this value... my implementation is crude but I could share
> the "recipe" with you if you're interested.
> 
> -joe
> 
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:40 PM, John D. Blair<jdb@moship.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 08:06 -0600, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> >> The process exit code is the return value from the process object's
> >> wait() function:
> >>
> >> exitcode = proc:wait()
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand... popen() doesn't return a process object, it
> > returns a file handle.  Also, I don't see wait() or a process object in
> > the lua docs anyplace.  Is it part of an add-on module?  I don't think
> > there's any concept of process in ANSI-C, which is what the un-adorned
> > lua interpreter targets.
> >
> >  -john.
> >
> >