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A library binding various POSIX APIs. POSIX is the IEEE Portable Operating System Interface standard. luaposix is based on lposix.

I am happy to announce release 34.1 of luaposix.

If you have moved to the new low-level APIs, and don't rely on the Lua backwards compatibility layer and convenience functions, you can safely omit those dependencies and use the C layer only.

luaposix's home page is at https://github.com/luaposix/luaposix/, with documentation at https://luaposix.github.io/luaposix.


## Noteworthy changes in release 34.1 (2019-07-20) [stable]

### Bugs Fixed


- `luke` works with upgraded bootstrap luarocks version of `require`.


- `posix.glob.glob` does not return a random errno on failure now, but
    new module constants `GLOB_ABORTED`, `GLOB_NOMATCH` or
    `GLOB_NOSPACE`.


- `posix.deprecated.clock_getres` and `posix.deprecated.clock_gettime` work again.


### New Features


  - `posix.glob.glob` supports now module constants as a second
argument: `GLOB_NOCHECK` and `GLOB_ERR`.


- `posix.sys.socket` now supports IPV6 link-local addresses.


  - use `std.strict`, `std._debug` and `typecheck` modules when
    available, otherwise behave normally without those additional
    runtime checks.




Install it with LuaRocks, using:

    luarocks install luaposix 34.1