Re: [NoW] Missing things from Lua

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

>   So I have this event driven network driver [1] where I can use Lua
> coroutines to handle a TCP [2] or TLS [3] connections (both client and
> server).  I also have code that turns such a connection into an object that
> looks like a Lua file object [4] so that I can do things like:
> 
> 	line = conn:read("l")
> 	raw  = conn:read(128)
> 	linecrlf = conn:read("L")
> 
>   I can't just wrap these up in a FILE* because that abstraction doesn't
> lend itself to event driven programming.  If I could, I would have, but it
> doesn't work, so I had to write this code.
> 
>   As it stands right now, it does *NO* buffering [5].  It would be nice to
> support buffering [6] but it's hard to know what the default amount to
> buffer is, hence the request for io.BUFFERSIZE.  Right now, all the code is
> in pure Lua, I would hate to have to drop to C for just one constant.

I still fail to wee why you need LUA_BUFFERSIZE. Why not BUFSIZ?

-- Roberto