Re: Init system in Lua

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@...>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Egil Hjelmeland
<privat@egil-hjelmeland.no> wrote:
> I agree that init system in Lua would be great. Half a year ago I seached
> Internet if there was something like that, because the embedded systems I
> work on, would benefit on faster boot times (to comply to regulations in
> some markets).
>
> For system library:
> I recommend to take look at nixio. nixio covers both filesystem and sockets.
> The sockets part is far better than Lua sockets (nixio support IPv6, returns
> all IO errors to the application so they can be handled, asyncrchonous I/O
> is correctly supported according to Posix). I also think nixio has an edge
> over lposix.
>
> I belive nixio is extensively used in openwrt.org, an other embedded Linux
> distro.
>
> http://luci.subsignal.org/trac/browser/luci/trunk/libs/nixio
> http://luci.subsignal.org/api/nixio/index.html

I looked at nixio some time ago, but I could not find any proper
release tarballs.

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Natanael Copa