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lua-resty-execvp

lua-resty-execvp - FFI wrapper for execvp syscall.

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• Community
• Bugs and Patches
• Author
• Copyright and License
• See Also

Status

This library is considered production ready.

Description

This Lua library is very simple wrapper using FFI to call execvp(const char *path, char *const argv[]).

This library can replace current process with some other and pass arguments and environment.

Synopsis

http {
    init_by_lua_block {
        local exec = require 'resty.execvp'
    
        exec('echo', { 'foo', 'bar' }, { SHELL = '/bin/sh' })
    }
}

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Methods

Module itself can be called as a function.

syntax: execvp.split(file, args, env)

Replaces current process with execution of file passing it list of args and optionally setting env variables.

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Installation

If you are using the OpenResty bundle (http://openresty.org ), then you can use opm to install this package.

opm get 3scale/lua-resty-execvp

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Bugs and Patches

Please report bugs or submit patches by

1. creating a ticket on the GitHub Issue Tracker,

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Author

Michal "mikz" Cichra [email protected], Red Hat Inc.

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Copyright and License

This module is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.

Copyright (C) 2016-2017, Red Hat Inc.

All rights reserved.

See LICENSE for the full license.

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See Also

• the APIcast API Gateway: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/#readme

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