Re: --lua-exec stream redirection on Windows

[Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>]

> Another possibility is to actually create a new process--calling
> ncat.exe in a special way so as to make it a Lua interpreter. This would
> allow us to use CreateProcess and all the debugged and tested
> infrastructure we have for --exec and --sh-exec. What I mean is that you
> as a user would call
>         ncat -l -k 5000 --lua-exec test.lua
> and the code in ncat_exec_win.c would do
>         CreateProcess("ncat --lua-exec-internal test.lua", ...);
> The --lua-exec-internal option will cause Ncat to immediately become
> just a Lua interpreter. It would be basically the same as "lua test.lua".
> This is something like how scp has the undocumented -t option that makes
> it a file receiver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy#How_it_works.

As for today, this is the approach implemented. I'm not really happy
with this implementation (it just doesn't feel right), so if somebody
more familiar with Windows could speak up, I'd be grateful.
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