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

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 16:19 -0700, Graydon Hoare wrote:
> 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.

Won't these be somewhat non-portable, such as to windows? I thought
monotone proper (as opposed to, say, extensions you can put in
monotonerc) was supposed to be the same on all platforms, are we
loosening that?

Tim
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