luaposix 33.2.1

• Index

Examples

• curses.lua
• dir.lua
• fork.lua
• fork2.lua
• getopt.lua
• glob.lua
• limit.lua
• lock.lua
• netlink-uevent.lua
• ping.lua
• poll.lua
• rt_sched.lua
• signal.lua
• socket.lua
• termios.lua
• tree.lua

Modules

• posix
• posix.bit32
• posix.ctype
• posix.curses
• posix.dirent
• posix.errno
• posix.fcntl
• posix.fnmatch
• posix.getopt
• posix.glob
• posix.grp
• posix.libgen
• posix.poll
• posix.pwd
• posix.sched
• posix.signal
• posix.stdio
• posix.stdlib
• posix.sys.msg
• posix.sys.resource
• posix.sys.socket
• posix.sys.stat
• posix.sys.statvfs
• posix.sys.time
• posix.sys.times
• posix.sys.utsname
• posix.sys.wait
• posix.syslog
• posix.termio
• posix.time
• posix.unistd
• posix.utime

Classes

• posix.curses.chstr
• posix.curses.window

fork2.lua

require "posix"

print ("parent: my pid is: " .. posix.getpid ("pid"))

local pid = posix.fork ()

if pid == -1 then
  print ("parent: The fork failed.")
elseif pid == 0 then
  print ("child: Hello World! I am pid: " .. posix.getpid ("pid"))
  print ("child: I'll sleep for 1 second ... ")
  posix.sleep (1)
  print ("child: Good bye");
else
  print ("parent: While the child sleeps, I'm still running.")
  print ("parent: waiting for child (pid:" .. pid .. ") to die...")
  posix.wait (pid)
  print ("parent: child died, but I'm still alive.")
  print ("parent: Good bye")
end