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From: Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Squirrel - no-bloat scripting language with sane syntax and semantics
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:03:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4o1WyjoX9-aUnvmV+Rqf+Kn4Mrg19Y38pv6zLqVi+ziNhtkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377423273.2737.120@driftwood>

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> Normally people use lua for this, which has around 100k of interpreter.
>
> The downside of lua is it doesn't have a full standard posix C binding
> library. (It has a nonstandard one you can add on, but when I looked at
> writing a busybox clone in it, I needed to install something like 7 packages
> to get all the libraries I needed. Then again, most people aren't
> implementing their own "ifconfig", "mount", and "taskset"...)

I have implemented ifconfig, mount etc in Lua (the APIs, not the
commands), see https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall - its pretty
comprehensive now.

Justin


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-25 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23 21:11 Paul Sokolovsky
2013-08-24  8:29 ` Luca Barbato
2013-08-24 11:29   ` Paul Sokolovsky
2013-08-25  9:34 ` Rob Landley
2013-08-25 15:03   ` Justin Cormack [this message]
2013-08-26 22:18     ` Rob Landley
2013-08-26 23:59       ` Rich Felker
2013-08-27  0:35         ` Rob Landley
2013-08-25 15:18   ` Ivan Kanakarakis
2013-08-25 19:40   ` Paul Sokolovsky
2013-08-25 20:00   ` Matias A. Fonzo
2013-08-25 20:10     ` Rich Felker
2013-08-31 18:39     ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-09-01 22:43       ` Matias A. Fonzo

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