Re: Nonblocking stdio

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> I have a lua application on unix which reads from stdio - there is some 
> significant work it could do if there is no input.  I thought about kludging 
> up a shim which would read from stdio, and write to a socket, from which my 
> app could read from in non-blocking mode using the luasocket facilities.
>
> It would be nice if the stdio facilities could use the luasocket 'select' 
> interface, etc.  Any ideas?

It would be nice, indeed.

Unfortunately, on Windows, select only supports sockets.
Even on Unix, passing the file descriptor used by a stdio 
FILE * to select would be problematic due to input/output buffering.
LuaSocket does its own buffering, so I know exactly what is
going on.

[]s,
Diego.