Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:27:52 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 1f31e00e19f9 - main - flua: add fbsd module Message-ID: <gx5xyglylgszhh4qnsutaeg7242jjelcdxy6ekd7ob6dyqucj5@dxcksbsc7mgl> In-Reply-To: <ZRWUjMVaALGvRF9W@nuc> References: <202309271400.38RE0s2R037013@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <ZRWUjMVaALGvRF9W@nuc>
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:58:20AM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 02:00:54PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > The branch main has been updated by bapt: > > > > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=1f31e00e19f9e24d4c891a24973e08a027c4f71c > > > > commit 1f31e00e19f9e24d4c891a24973e08a027c4f71c > > Author: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> > > AuthorDate: 2023-09-13 07:43:33 +0000 > > Commit: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> > > CommitDate: 2023-09-27 14:00:00 +0000 > > > > flua: add fbsd module > > > > This module is bundled into flua, it only provides for now the exec > > function. The point of the function is to be able to execute a program > > without actually executing a shell. > > > > to use it: > > fbsd.exec({"id", "bapt"}) > > Hi Baptiste, > > How is this different from posix.unistd.exec in the luaposix module? > Wouldn't it be better to add this to the existing posix.unistd namespace > in lposix.c? exec does not seem FreeBSD-specific. This is more like os.execure without the invocation of /bin/sh! > > I have a related question: this week I wrote some FreeBSD-specific lua > modules wrapping some system calls like sysctl(2) and cap_enter(2). How > do we want to organize the flua namespace for such things? Should we > have a freebsd.sys namespace for system call wrappers? I would then put > bindings for FreeBSD libraries under freebsd.* or freebsd.lib.*, so we > could have freebsd.lib.procstat, for example. I am fine with a module named freebsd.lib.* I plan to add kenv, rcctl, procctl so, (I scratched sysctl and cap_enter has you have them ;) ) Bapt
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