Re: LuaSocket 1.5 work

[Renato Cerqueira <rcerq@...>]

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 08:49  PM, Wim Couwenberg wrote:

> > I am releasing a snapshot of LuaSocket 1.5 for Lua-5.0-beta.
>
> Very nice!  We need sockets support in our projects before
> we can switch over to Lua 5 so thanks for the effort.
>
> I have a question about luasocket (for Lua 4.0.1) on Win32
> (we currently test on Windows 98.) It turns out that the
> select call does not sleep at all when called with empty
> tables and a positive timeout but instead returns
> immediately.  Do you know a way to patch this?  (It's not
> that important, but it would be just that bit nicer.
> Currently we check for empty tables and sleep instead of
> doing a select.)
>
> Thanks,
> Wim


If I am not mistaken, it is a problem with the Win32's select.

--Renato