Re: Re: Does it make sense to add general file descriptor support to LuaSocket 2.0?

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@...>]

Kudos for a VERY usable library!

-j

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:54:01 -0400 (EDT), Diego Nehab
<diego@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I'm very fond of Lua5 and LuaSocket 2.0, but I have one issue that I'd
> > like to address.
> >
> > I use Lua to monitor network communication ~and~ data coming in on a
> > RS-232 port.
> >
> > It'd be great if I add the file descriptor for the serial port into
> > the list socket.select uses.
> >
> > Is this crazy? If not, how much of a hack would this be to LuaSocket?
> 
> The hack is already there. The new select implementation only requires you
> to provide a getfd method in the object you want to call select on. I know
> this is dirty and might crash, but I am not documenting it and expecting
> only people that know what they are doing (such as yourself) to use it.
> 
> []s,
> Diego.
>