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Message-ID: <CAK4o1WyjoX9-aUnvmV+Rqf+Kn4Mrg19Y38pv6zLqVi+ziNhtkA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:03:33 +0100
From: Justin Cormack <justin@...cialbusservice.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Squirrel - no-bloat scripting language with sane syntax
and semantics
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.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
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