Re: Coroutines and blocking IO

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Javier Guerra wrote:
> ...
> on windows.... maybe select() wouldn't cut it. is there a poll()-like system? 
> i think most unixes are evolving to away from select(), anyway

Right. Threading is really the right way to solve this problem. It would 
be nice if coroutines could yield when a lua thread did some blocking 
I/O. But I don't see how you could do that?


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