Re: --lua-exec stream redirection on Windows

[Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>]

2013/6/24 Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:38 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > Jacek is trying the approach of reassigning Lua's io.stdin and io.stdout
> > variables before running the requested program. This is a bit
> > problematic because, as Patrick noted, there are other places where
> > stdin and stdout can leak, for example io.lines called with no
> > arguments. But perhaps with enough tweaking this idea will work.
>
> I think in the end this just wouldn't be a good solution. Scripts
> which would call os.execute or use a library that talks to
> stdin/stdout wouldn't work as expected.
>
> So what Jacek has done now seems like one of the better options, IMO.

Thanks, I completely didn't think of that. So I guess we'll stick to
this solution.
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