Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] New lua command execute_redirout which executes an os command and captures standard output

[Bruce Stephens]

Daniel Dickinson <address@hidden> writes:

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> Oh, I need it to be able to use stat to get unix permissions and
> user and group on a file, as well as using readlink to get the
> target of symlinks.  I'm using monotone attributes to track these.
> It's not strictly necessary since you can work around it, as I did
> with the helper script on the wiki page, but this way of doing it
> makes life much easier.

Well, an obvious alternative would be to provide those two operations
as lua functions.  How portable is stat as a command?