diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 349238b625cb..e41e8a162546 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ lua-resty-jwt,,,,,,
 lua-resty-openidc,,,,,,
 lua-resty-openssl,,,,,,
 lua-resty-session,,,,,,
+lua-subprocess,https://github.com/0x0ade/lua-subprocess,,,,lua5_1,scoder12
 lua-term,,,,,,
 lua-toml,,,,,,
 lua-zlib,,,,,,koral
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 3c146f50b00a..e20f45df46cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -1357,6 +1357,37 @@ buildLuarocksPackage {
   };
 }) {};
 
+lua-subprocess = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, luaOlder, luaAtLeast
+, fetchgit, lua
+}:
+buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "subprocess";
+  version = "scm-1";
+
+  src = fetchgit ( removeAttrs (builtins.fromJSON ''{
+  "url": "https://github.com/0x0ade/lua-subprocess.git",
+  "rev": "bfa8e97da774141f301cfd1106dca53a30a4de54",
+  "date": "2021-01-09T22:31:54+01:00",
+  "path": "/nix/store/3lr7n1k85kbf718wxr51xd40i8dfs5qd-lua-subprocess",
+  "sha256": "0p91hda0b0hpgdbff5drcyygaizq086gw8vnvzn0y0fg3mc9if70",
+  "fetchLFS": false,
+  "fetchSubmodules": true,
+  "deepClone": false,
+  "leaveDotGit": false
+}
+ '') ["date" "path"]) ;
+
+  disabled = with lua; (luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/xlq/lua-subprocess";
+    description = "A Lua module written in C that allows you to create child processes and communicate with them.";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ scoder12 ];
+    license.fullName = "MIT";
+  };
+}) {};
+
 lua-term = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, luaOlder, luaAtLeast
 , fetchurl}:
 buildLuarocksPackage {