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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:45:14 -0500
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@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:  <ffa11b02-3bb0-a00e-2561-60790aad08fa@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <ZRWUjMVaALGvRF9W@nuc>
References:  <202309271400.38RE0s2R037013@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <ZRWUjMVaALGvRF9W@nuc>

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On 9/28/23 09:58, 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.
> 

fwiw, posix.unistd is expected to match some subset of the actual lposix 
module: https://github.com/luaposix/luaposix -- we could add something 
there, but I'd prefer to see it go upstream first before we adopt it, in 
general, if it's one of these subsets-of-a-module that we implement.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans



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