Re: Timeout on stdin

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> But you can't get much done if you can't add your own
> descriptors to its select loop. Assignment #1 in my first
> OS course long ago was to write a simple talk
> implementation, selecting on stdin and a socket
> descriptor. Its pretty much the simplest of socket
> programming examples, but you can't implement this with
> luasocket's documented API?

Because it has to be portable. I.e., sockets are not file
descriptors on Windows. I don't particularly like this
design decision, but my opinion is not going to change.
Take a look at the cygwin source code and look at the
trouble they have to go through to simulate the behavior you
want.

> Great, so I guess my sockext lib is doing the following right, by
> always returning false.

Probably.

Regards,
Diego