RE: LuaSocket 3.0? (was Re: A proposal for faster userdata type checking)

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> FYI There is a good library Boost ASIO for async socket
> operations already, supports Linux, Windows, etc. Uses I/O
> completion ports on WIN32 and epoll on Linux.  The next
> version will have general File I/O.

Thanks! I think that most of the work will be in buffering,
interfacing with Lua, future management etc. So I would
rather take a look at ASIO and libevent just for inspiration
than adding another dependency.

Kind regards,
Diego