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

[Graydon Hoare]

Bruce Stephens wrote:

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

Yes, I'd much prefer writing stat() and readlink() lua functions. Both 
functions are in SUSv3 and will be much faster than spawning a subprocess.

-graydon