Re: [ANN] lsocket - Another library for sockets in lua

["Gunnar Zötl" <gz@...>]

Hmmm... you're right, connect() may block, too. Not sure whether this can be
solved in the context of this rather simple API. Unix domain sockets are not
within the scope of this, but I hear that luasockets can do them now?

Egil Hjelmeland <privat@egil-hjelmeland.no> hat am 27. März 2013 um 11:08
geschrieben:
> > Also, everything (apart from select, and, if you wish to count them, dns
> > resolutions) is non-blocking.
>
> lsocket.connect() is blocking too?
>
> If unix sockets also were supported, I could actually use it.
>
> Egil
>
>
> On 27. mars 2013 10:18, "Gunnar Zötl" wrote:
> > I should add, as I have no windows to develop on, this is Linux and Mac
> > only.
> >
> > "Gunnar Zötl" <gz@tset.de> hat am 27. März 2013 um 09:40 geschrieben:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> this message is to announce the availability of lsocket, another take of a
> >> socket programming library for lua.
> >>
> >> It is not intended to be a complete socket api, but easy to use and good
> >> enough
> >> for most tasks. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported, as are tcp and udp, and
> >> also
> >> IPv4 broadcasts and IPv6 multicasts.
> >>
> >> With lsocket, I restrict myself to what I percieve as the most common use
> >> cases
> >> of socket programming, and attempting to make those things
> >> easy. Also, everything (apart from select, and, if you wish to count them,
> >> dns
> >> resolutions) is non-blocking.
> >>
> >> You can get lsocket from http://www.tset.de/lsocket
> >>
> >> or via luarocks install lsocket.
> >>
> >> Rgds,
> >>
> >> Gunnar
> >>
> >
>
>