Re: Does it make sense to add general file descriptor support to LuaSocket 2.0?

[diego@...]

Hi Joe,

> I finally download luasocket-2.0-beta. Thanks!
>
> I've also been playing with the getfd method. So far it does exactly
> what I want it to under Linux. Very nice "dirty parts"... ;-)

There are some bugs, of course. That's what a beta is for... :o/
I will post an updated version soon, and after a few weeks I will
release the beta2.

> I'm fooling around to see if I can make changes to select.c so that
> the win32 version uses some form of MsgWaitForMultipleObjects() with
> the intent of supporting serial/network select()-ing in that
> environment, too. I'll keep you posted.

Let me know. As I posted, last time I checked the cygwin implementation
used threads to select. Not nice.

[]s,
Diego.