Re: [patch] put Lua standard libraries into the kernel

[Lourival Vieira Neto <lourival.neto%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:15 PM, dieter roelants
<dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:50:16 +0100
> Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:
>
>> My suggestion is this:
>>
>> Build with lauxlib and also build the standard libraries
>> Create a new sysctl kern.lua.stdlib, set to one by default
>> If a new state is created in lua(4), run lua_openlib(...) on that state
>> if kern.lua.stdlib is set to a vaue != 0
>>
>> So by default a kernel Lua state would then have the stdlibs available,
>> much you have them available when running lua(1).
>
> Maybe it's just me, but it seems strange to have this depend on a
> (global) sysctl. I assume you have a reason for being able to disable
> it. But if you then want to run other lua code that needs the stdlibs,
> it will be enabled for your original code as well. Did I misunderstand?

Yes, you're right.

Regards,
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Lourival Vieira Neto