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- Subject: Re: Non-blocking file IO without thread possible ?
- From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:16:52 -0700
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:10:45PM -0700, gary ng wrote:
> I am wondering if this can be done to write a
> bidirectional netcat like system in Lua(say ip over
> DNS).
Do you mean file i/o or socket i/o?
Non-blocking file i/o isn't possible on many (most?) OS, without using
asynchronous i/o calls, availability of which is very OS dependent.
Non-blocking socket i/o is supported by LuaSocket, isn't it?
Sam
