[luatex] \pdfshellescape

[David Carlisle]

On 5 December 2015 at 23:29, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso at gmail.com> wrote:
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> but I'm not sure that this will be the final form --- maybe for this reason it  is still to be documented.


Thanks it would be nice if you could document it, even (or especially)
if it is likely to change.

We may need it in latex (existing packages using \pdfshellescape) and
I feel uneasy
relying on undocumented code.

It does seem a bit strange being overloaded on to os.execute() since
it is presumably a fixed
integer for the duration of any document, so the function syntax seems
slightly odd, but
it's certainly workable (if documented:-) so that's more of a minor
aside since you mentioned
it might change.

David