LuaSocket 2.0b2 troubles

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Hello!  LuaSocket looks great, but I'm having a bit of trouble
with it and I was wondering if I was alone... this is on
linux/x86 (glibc 2.2.4, kernel 2.4.25, lua 5.0.2):

Running testclnt/testsrvr:

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LuaSocket Test Procedures
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attempting control connection...
connected!
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testing: method registration
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tcp{master} methods are ok
udp{unconnected} methods are ok
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testing: select function
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both nil: ok
closed sockets: ok
invalid input: ok
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testing: connect function
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connect with timeout (if it hangs, it failed!): ok
attempting data connection...

There it just hangs (indefinitely as far as I can see).
Tracing through, it is hanging in the control:recieve() call of
testclnt's remote() function, and remote() was called from
reconnect().  Meanwhile I don't think that testsrvr.lua has ever
returned from its initial server:accept() call.

I'm having a possibly-related problem with the most basic
invocations of ftp.get() and http.request(): they also hang,
fairly early in the connection, though they do timeout as a
result.  http.request() is the one I have investigated the most
(I assume ftp.get() is just the same problem); it:
* correctly knows when it's pointed at a bad hostname, and returns.
* correctly knows when it's pointed at a bad port ('connection
refused') and returns.
* hangs (well, timeouts) when it should get a successful
connection.  Apache server doesn't register a connection in its
log (so we didn't get as far as issuing a GET, I think).

I am doing one maybe-unusual thing: I have made minor tweaks to
statically link and initialise LuaSocket in my binary, but I don't
expect that to have affected such a 'deep' error (but then, computers
are strange).

Was wondering how LuaSocket is for other folk, or if anyone has
anything I could try.

Thanks,
--Adam