Re: [ANN] lpty 0.8-1

[Ed <spied@...>]

Gunnar Zötl wrote:
> You can get lpty from http://www.tset.de/lpty/ or from the luarocks repository.

I think better is luasocket-alike interface:
1. read() can be renamed to receive()
btw, read/send pair is strange.
2. In luasocket only one receive function return error message too:
If successful, the method returns the received pattern. In case of 
error, the method returns *nil* followed by an error message
3. Your version of send() did not understand partial writes, in luasocket:
client:*send(*data [, i [, j]]*)*

Sends data through client object.

Data is the string to be sent. The optional arguments i and j work 
exactly like the standard string.sub Lua function to allow the selection 
of a substring to be sent.

If successful, the method returns the index of the last byte within [i, 
j] that has been sent. Notice that, if i is 1 or absent, this is 
effectively the total number of bytes sent. In case of error, the method 
returns *nil*, followed by an error message, followed by the index of 
the last byte within [i, j] that has been sent.
4. You define sendok() and readok(), but sometimes better is check 
several file descriptors in one select/poll call.
luasocket provide getfd() function for this.