libs/sys: Added luci.sys.call

[project/luci.git] / libs / sys / luasrc / sys.lua

diff --git a/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua b/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
index d9f236e..e27e1c4 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
+++ b/libs/sys/luasrc/sys.lua
@@ -41,6 +41,21 @@ local tonumber, ipairs, pairs = tonumber, ipairs, pairs
 --- LuCI Linux and POSIX system utilities.
 module "luci.sys"
 
+--- Execute a given shell command and return the error code
+-- @class              function
+-- @name               call
+-- @param              ...             Command to call
+-- @return             Error code of the command
+function call(...)
+       return os.execute(...) / 256
+end
+
+--- Execute a given shell command and capture its standard output
+-- @class              function
+-- @name               exec
+-- @param command      Command to call
+-- @return                     String containg the return the output of the command
+exec = luci.util.exec
 
 --- Invoke the luci-flash executable to write an image to the flash memory.
 -- @param image                Local path or URL to image file
@@ -309,6 +324,8 @@ end
 process = {}
 
 --- Get the current process id.
+-- @class function
+-- @name  process.info
 -- @return     Number containing the current pid
 process.info = posix.getpid
 
@@ -373,6 +390,8 @@ function process.setuser(pid, uid)
 end
 
 --- Send a signal to a process identified by given pid.
+-- @class function
+-- @name  process.signal
 -- @param pid  Number containing the process id
 -- @param sig  Signal to send (default: 15 [SIGTERM])
 -- @return             Boolean indicating successful operation