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@gvvaughan gvvaughan released this 17 Jun 04:13
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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 36.2.1 of luaposix.

If you have moved to the documented APIs, and don't rely on the Lua backwards compatibility layer or convenience functions, you can safely omit Lua module 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 36.2.1 (2023-06-16) [stable]

Incompatible Changes

  • Using latest typecheck and specl rocks requires that our argument errors list all typenames in full ("integer" not "int") and unions in order ("nil or string" not "string or nil".

    All luaposix APIs now report argument type errors accordingly.

Bugs Fixed

  • posix.unistd.read and posix.sys.socket.recv no longer hide the underlying real error by casting a ssize_t result into an unsigned site_t local.

  • Fix a typo in the lflag argument name in the termios table LDocs.

  • posix.sys.* submodules are correctly preloaded into the module table returned by require 'posix' so that this undocumented, deprecated and slow way to access the functions therein continues to work for now:

    local posix = require 'posix'
local stat  = posix.sys.stat.stat

    For new code, consider this fast and documented alternative, that does not load every available luaposix API from disk (especially if your project does not use APIs from every luaposix module):

    local stat  = require 'posix.sys.stat'.stat

  • Removed IUTF8 from the documented list of supported iflag values in posix.termios because it was previously unimplemented. Implemented non-portable support as an XSI extension, as it isn't a part of the POSIX standard.

Install it with LuaRocks, using:

luarocks install luaposix 36.2.1
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