Re: No os.copy or lfs.copy?

[Michal Kolodziejczyk <miko@...>]

gary ng wrote:
> How would coroutine help in this file copy case,
> assuming we are using the stock lua file io library
> which is not async capable ?

You could read large file in smaller blocks while at the same time do 
something else (if you need to). So use file:read(buffersize) with 
buffersize that matches your hardware best.

Regards,
miko