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From: trevor donahue <donahue.trevor@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Awesome WM, io.popen() attempt to index io nil value
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:14:22
Message-Id: CALMtN6xPQ3eMDbx-gYy4KP1tXhxKgrwW9vfd+a8BuAfAaehLFw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Awesome WM, io.popen() attempt to index io nil value by trevor donahue
1 anyone?
2
3 On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:17 PM, trevor donahue <donahue.trevor@×××××.com>wrote:
4
5 > http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.7
6 > the doc
7 > also found on other resources scripts using IO not io, that still aint
8 > working...
9 >
10 >
11 > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:14 PM, trevor donahue <donahue.trevor@×××××.com>wrote:
12 >
13 >> Hi folks,
14 >> is anyone of you using awesome wm?
15 >> I've been struggling with a little bit of a problem lately, wanted to
16 >> create a widget that retrieves gmail data using curl. The problem
17 >> encountered is the function io.popen() that returns nil [attempt to index
18 >> io nil value] (as having an error in lua) even though not doing anything
19 >> special, tested also with ls -l and other trivial bash commands...
20 >>
21 >> Can somebody help me resolve the problem?
22 >>
23 >
24 >
25 >
26 > --
27 > Thanks,
28 > Donahue Trevor
29 >
30 >
31
32
33 --
34 Thanks,
35 Donahue Trevor

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Awesome WM, io.popen() attempt to index io nil value Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>