Re: LuaSocket 3.0? (was Re: A proposal for faster userdata type checking)

[Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>]

On Friday, February 29, 2008 Diego Nehab wrote: 

>> Is LusSocket mechanism flexible enough to handle local
>> sockets and file I/O?

> Local sockets, definitely. File I/O I don't see why not. I
> wonder if the OS implements non-blocking I/O on regular
> files. I have heard on this list that this is usually not
> the case. It will be fun to test.

Windows IOCP makes it pretty easy to use regular files, pipes, 
sockets, and timers. 

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-01/msg00613.html

One difficulty with Lua file library compatibility is buffered io, 
e.g., file:read("*l").

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Doug Currie
Londonderry, NH, USA