Re: [Dev-luatex] os.exec and waiting for process

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:15:26AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:

os.exec(...) does not wait for the process to terminate.

Now my question is: Is there any way to do that, i.e., to call a different program and wait for it to terminate, resembling the perl 'system' call.

From refmanual of 5.0:

| os.execute (command) | | This function is equivalent to the C function system. It passes command to | be executed by an operating system shell. It returns a status code, which | is system-dependent. Yours sincerely Heiko