1 files changed, 59 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tex/context/base/l-os.lua b/tex/context/base/l-os.lua
index f9bd46e51..799f44957 100644
--- a/tex/context/base/l-os.lua
+++ b/tex/context/base/l-os.lua
@@ -22,17 +22,28 @@ if not modules then modules = { } end modules ['l-os'] = {
 -- os.name     : windows | msdos | linux | macosx | solaris | .. | generic (new)
 -- os.platform : extended os.name with architecture
 
+-- os.sleep() => socket.sleep()
+-- math.randomseed(tonumber(string.sub(string.reverse(tostring(math.floor(socket.gettime()*10000))),1,6)))
+
 -- maybe build io.flush in os.execute
 
 local os = os
+local date, time = os.date, os.time
 local find, format, gsub, upper, gmatch = string.find, string.format, string.gsub, string.upper, string.gmatch
 local concat = table.concat
-local random, ceil = math.random, math.ceil
-local rawget, rawset, type, getmetatable, setmetatable, tonumber = rawget, rawset, type, getmetatable, setmetatable, tonumber
+local random, ceil, randomseed = math.random, math.ceil, math.randomseed
+local rawget, rawset, type, getmetatable, setmetatable, tonumber, tostring = rawget, rawset, type, getmetatable, setmetatable, tonumber, tostring
 
 -- The following code permits traversing the environment table, at least
 -- in luatex. Internally all environment names are uppercase.
 
+-- The randomseed in Lua is not that random, although this depends on the operating system as well
+-- as the binary (Luatex is normally okay). But to be sure we set the seed anyway.
+
+math.initialseed = tonumber(string.sub(string.reverse(tostring(ceil(socket and socket.gettime()*10000 or time()))),1,6))
+
+randomseed(math.initialseed)
+
 if not os.__getenv__ then
 
     os.__getenv__ = os.getenv
@@ -136,12 +147,14 @@ else
     os.libsuffix, os.binsuffix, os.binsuffixes = 'so', '', { '' }
 end
 
+local launchers = {
+    windows = "start %s",
+    macosx  = "open %s",
+    unix    = "$BROWSER %s &> /dev/null &",
+}
+
 function os.launch(str)
-    if os.type == "windows" then
-        os.execute("start " .. str) -- os.spawn ?
-    else
-        os.execute(str .. " &")     -- os.spawn ?
-    end
+    os.execute(format(launchers[os.name] or launchers.unix,str))
 end
 
 if not os.times then
@@ -357,7 +370,7 @@ end
 local d
 
 function os.timezone(delta)
-    d = d or tonumber(tonumber(os.date("%H")-os.date("!%H")))
+    d = d or tonumber(tonumber(date("%H")-date("!%H")))
     if delta then
         if d > 0 then
             return format("+%02i:00",d)
@@ -369,6 +382,44 @@ function os.timezone(delta)
     end
 end
 
+local timeformat = format("%%s%s",os.timezone(true))
+local dateformat = "!%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
+
+function os.fulltime(t,default)
+    t = tonumber(t) or 0
+    if t > 0 then
+        -- valid time
+    elseif default then
+        return default
+    else
+        t = nil
+    end
+    return format(timeformat,date(dateformat,t))
+end
+
+local dateformat = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
+
+function os.localtime(t,default)
+    t = tonumber(t) or 0
+    if t > 0 then
+        -- valid time
+    elseif default then
+        return default
+    else
+        t = nil
+    end
+    return date(dateformat,t)
+end
+
+function os.converttime(t,default)
+    local t = tonumber(t)
+    if t and t > 0 then
+        return date(dateformat,t)
+    else
+        return default or "-"
+    end
+end
+
 local memory = { }
 
 local function which(filename)