Re: Lua Lanes with package.preload and package.loader

[Greg <tghill@...>]

> I the problem is that you go through C to load some native functions.
> Because of this, Lanes doesn't have knowledge of them, therefore
> cannot transfer them from one Lua state to another.

I previously got older versions of lanes to work by doing this:

    local p = package.preload["socket.core"]

    local f = lanes.gen("*", function()

        package.preload["socket.core"] = p
       
        local socket = require("socket")
    )

    f()

where "socket.core" was loaded with this code:

    lua_getfield(lua, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, "package");
    lua_getfield(lua, -1, "preload");
    lua_pushcfunction(lua, luaopen_socket_core);
    lua_setfield(lua, -2, "socket.core");



Unfortunately I don't know how to do this for "lua51-lanes" which is loaded with
similar code.

 lua_getfield(lua, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, "package");
 lua_getfield(lua, -1, "preload");
 lua_pushcfunction(lua, luaopen_lanes);
 lua_setfield(lua, -2, "lua51-lanes");


Could there be an easy way to do something similar for "lua51-lanes"?