Re: Launching and controlling multiple lua scripts from Lua

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Friday, January 31, 2014, Jorge <xxopxe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 03:14 PM, Andrew Starks wrote:
>
> > This looks really awesome. I was thinking along similar lines as this,
> > except with a focus on bsd sockets as the interface for organizing
> > message passing, etc.
> >
> > I like the structure of this, though. We need inter-(os) thread
> > communication, so we're playing with nanomsg. It'd be interesting to see
> > how this would interact with message passing between concurrent threads.
> > It seems like it could work well...
>
> Lumen has a signal proxy, so you can wait for signals on a remote instance [1].
> Signals are passed trough a TCP socket, serialized with either bencode or json. It worked for what I wanted at the moment [2], but have plans for supporting also UDP, as it makes sense in some case uses (including the referenced example :) ).
>
> For now it depends on either luasocket or nixio for socket support, and I have a half-baked ljsycall backend.
> Nanomsg would'be a great candidate for transport tough, that's true.
>
> Jorge
>
> [1] http://xopxe.github.io/Lumen/modules/proxy.html
> [2] https://github.com/xopxe/Toribio/blob/master/docs/1-Tutorial.md#remote-control-using-a-proxy

I poked around with this. It is pretty sweet. 

I fixed some issues with 5.2, require paths, and windows sleeping. 

I'll submit a pull request later today, once I learn how to do that. :)

-Andrew