[ANN] lpty 1.0.1

[Gunnar Zötl <gz@...>]

Hi,

this message is to announce the availability of lpty 1.0.1. lpty is a simple
interface to pty functionality, providing the ability to fork a process and run
it under pty control. It does not try to mimic the posix API but instead focuses
on the function of running and controlling a program.

New since version 1.0:

- added getfd method to retrieve the file descriptor of the pty's master side.
  This has been contributed by Matthew Wild (mwild1 at gmail dot com). His
  rationale, which I can completely get behind, is this:
    Having the method name 'getfd' is good, as it makes the pty objects
    compatible with LuaSocket objects. This means you can pass the pty
    directly to socket.select()! (it probably works with LuaEvent too,
    but I haven't tested).
- changed signal handling to use sigaction() instead of signal()

You can get lpty from http://www.tset.de/lpty

or via luarocks install lpty.

Rgds,

Gunnar