On 2005-03-17, Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 2005-03-16, Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If you return nil in this case and the pid in the other case, IIRC, >>> you can still write in lua >> >> libextl doesn't support integers being nil. > > This could be done with a libextl export returning both the bool and > the int and a lua wrapper. Not sure it's worth the effort, though.
Or one could return a string containing the number or NULL as Lua automatically coerces number-strings to numbers. But it isn't worth it. I think it would be appropriate to return the value of fork() and thus -1 on failure. -- Tuomo
