From a5a6a295e07fd47d6f59d663cde38371dd878d89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:55:02 +0200
Subject: common: add simple status code table

---
 common.lua | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common.lua b/common.lua
index 89153d8..d7d3640 100644
--- a/common.lua
+++ b/common.lua
@@ -6,6 +6,30 @@ local stringformat  = string.format
 local verboselvl    = 0
 local colorize      = false
 
+local table_mirrored = function (t, only)
+  local ret = { }
+
+  if t ~= nil then
+    for k, v in next, t do
+      ret [k] = v
+      if only == false then
+        ret [v] = k
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  return ret
+end
+
+local status do
+  local codes =
+    { ok    =  0
+    , error = -1
+    }
+
+  status = { codes = table_mirrored (codes) }
+end
+
 --- check if stderr is pipe; use color otherwise
 local ok, unistd    = pcall (require, "posix.unistd")
 if ok then
@@ -102,5 +126,6 @@ return
   , trim_whitespace       = trim_whitespace
   , unescape_string       = unescape_string
   , internalize_value     = internalize_value
+  , status                = status
   }
 
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