On 11/21/2019 8:17 AM, Henri Menke wrote:
Dear list,
The following Lua script behaves differently when executed in Lua vs.
LuaTeX.
print(os.execute("date"))
It seems that the definition of os_execute in loslibext.c was copied
over from Lua 5.1 and not adapted to newer versions.
$ lua5.1 test.lua
0
$ lua5.2 test.lua
true exit 0
$ lua5.3 test.lua
true exit 0
$ texlua test.lua
0
$ luajit test.lua
0
$ texluajit test.lua
0
As you can see from the example, this comes with the additional
complication that LuaJIT has Lua 5.1 behaviour and should also retain
that.
Indeed, the old interface was kept (also for compatibility reasons as
lua is used for scripts in texlive etc).
If one used lua as well as luatex as lua engine for the same script one
can write a wrapper if needed (I have been thinking of that on context
but again it would also mean adapting older scripts laying around.)
Hans
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