Re: lua_signal

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

> We already sent the changes as a patch to Patrick (because we're good guys).

> Though I don't think he used our patch verbatim, Patrick incorporated our
> feedback (because he's also good). He produced a new release and also
> relocated it to http://batbytes.com/lua-signal/ .

I probably missed the announcement in the mailing list, sorry.

It is a shame that LuaRocks version is so outdated.

> However Prosody hasn't switched, and won't be just yet. The new lua-signal
> is changed somewhat, and has a debug hook permanently set. Though this
> wouldn't bother most applications, it bothers us (we both use debug hooks
> for debugging, and well, we're a realtime network server and it badly hurts
> throughput). Patrick indicated that he would be happy to amend the official
> lua-signal to reflect our concerns, but to the best of my knowledge has not
> yet done so. We'll likely switch to the official version when it includes
> these changes.

Um. Permanently set debug hook is not good. This means I wouldn't be
able to use new release as well.

Perhaps there is another signal handling library out there?

Alexander.