Hello!
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, cefan.daniel.rubin wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
> Thank you for a fascinating product! I am interested in issuing a shell
> command without blocking if at all possible and have read reference to a
> ngx_shell module. I have not found one though. Any suggestions for
> replacement functionality? Thanks!
>
I believe Marcus Clyne was working on an Nginx C module named
ngx_shell. I'm not sure about its current status and I've cc'd Marcus.
Also, there's a brief discussion for implementing a nonblocking
io.popen() primitive (or the like) in ngx_lua on the openresty
(Chinese) mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/openresty/x-9JKlF78ww/gxEsig0yHfgJ
Best regards,
-agentzh