Redesign issue #10: bare-word commands now work in both scripts and
the REPL via a parser-level heuristic (identifier + non-exception-list
token → shell command). Add runtime fallback for string-arg syntax
(echo "hello"), double-dash flag handling, and classification examples.
Add issue #12 for path-based command execution (./script, /bin/ls, ~/bin/deploy).
Add testes/lush/commands-interactive.lua as a design playground covering
result table structure, exit codes, commands inside Lua blocks, _ behaviour,
runtime fallback, Lua variable shadowing, and interleaved Lua/shell.
Use sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to catch SIGINT during readline/fgets input
and jump back to the REPL loop with a fresh prompt. Running Lua code
still gets interrupted via the existing laction/lstop mechanism.
Fixes#11.
Rewrite #10 with refined interactive command design: bare-word REPL
fallback instead of ! prefix, result table assigned to _, same shape
as captured commands. Add #11 for Ctrl-C clearing the current line
instead of exiting the REPL.
Use uname -s to select Linux vs macOS build flags instead of
hardcoding. Add -undefined dynamic_lookup for test shared libs
on macOS. Set _port=true automatically on non-Linux in ./all.
Add test suite under testes/lush/ covering backtick commands, argv
parsing, ${} interpolation, and $NAME environment variables. Wire
them into testes/all.lua so they run with the full Lua 5.5 suite.
Skip /dev/full test in files.lua when the device doesn't exist
(macOS has no /dev/full).
Mark issues #02 (backtick lexing/parsing), #03 (command execution
runtime), and #04 (argv parsing) as resolved. Add new issues for
configuration (#08), programmable prompt (#09), and interactive
command execution (#10).
Implements luaB_command: fork/execvp with pipe-captured stdout/stderr,
argv parsing with quoting/escaping, and non-blocking pipe reading via
select(). Backs the __command() calls emitted by the backtick parser.
Resolves#03 and #04.
Backtick expressions now compile as calls to a global __command()
function instead of being treated as plain strings. Interpolation
via ${expr} is supported, with each interpolated value wrapped in
tostring() for type safety. Commands are parsed in primaryexp so
suffix operations like `.stdout` work directly.
Adds a stub __command that returns {code, stdout, stderr} for testing
until the real implementation (issue #03).
- New macro l_strcoll to ease changing 'strcoll' to something else.
- MAXINDEXRK==1 in 'ltests.h' is enough to run test 'code.lua'.
- Removed unused '#include' in 'lutf8lib.c'.
When calling 'luaK_storevar', the 'expdesc' for the variable must be
created before the one for the expression, to satisfy the assumptions
for register allocation. So, in a statement like 'global a = exp', where
'a' is actually '_ENV.a', this variable must be handled before the
initializing expression 'exp'.
When dumping a string, adding 2 to its size may overflow a size_t for
external strings, which may not have a header. (Adding 1 is Ok, because
all strings end with a '\0' not included in their size.) The new method
for saving NULL strings code them as a repeated string, using the
reserved index 0.
The check for limit of local variables is made after generating code to
initialize them. If there are too many local variables not initialized,
the coding of instruction OP_LOADNIL could overflow an argument.
A vararg table can be virtual. If the vararg table is used only as
a base in indexing expressions, the code does not need to create an
actual table for it. Instead, it compiles the indexing expressions
into direct accesses to the internal vararg data.
- LUAMOD_API defined as 'extern "C"' in C++.
- "ANSI C" is in fact "ISO C" (comments)
- Removed option -std from makefile in testes/libs. (Easier to change
to C++ for tests).
In C, we may have several "setjmp" nested, and the "longjmp" will go
to the one given by the corresponding "jmp_buf". In C++, a "throw"
will always go to the inner "catch". So, the "catch" must check
whether it is the recipient of the "throw" and, if not, rethrow
the exception to the outer level.
An external definition for LUA_32BITS can change the API, but libraries
check number-format compatibility when loading. So, any incompatible
modules will report a clear error.
These definitions were in luaconf.h only because the standard libraries
need them. Now that llimits.h is included by the libraries, it offers a
more private place for these definitions.
When both 'int' and 'l_obj' have 32 bits, an unsigned int needs a
cast to be assigned to 'l_obj'. (As long as 'l_obj' can count the
total memory used by the system, these casts should be safe.)
The cast of n (number of repetitions) to size_t may truncate its value,
causing a buffer overflow later. Better to check the buffer size
using lua_Integer, as all string lengths must fit in a lua_Integer and
n already is a lua_Integer. If everything fits in MAX_SIZE, then we can
safely convert n to size_t and compute the buffer size as a size_t.
As a corner case, n can be larger than size_t if the strings being
repeated have length zero, but in this case it will be multiplied by
zero, so an overflow in the cast is irrelevant.
A bad actor could fill only a few entries in a table (power of twos in
decreasing order, see tests) and produce a small table with a huge
length. If your program builds a table with external data and iterates
over its length, this behavior could be an issue.
