From 6523585c66c04cea54df50013df8886b589847d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Walter Seikel
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:36:30 +1000
Subject: Add luaproc and LuaJIT libraries.

Two versions of LuaJIT, the stable release, and the dev version.  Try the dev version first, until ih fails badly.
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 libraries/luaproc/README | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 97 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 libraries/luaproc/README

(limited to 'libraries/luaproc/README')

diff --git a/libraries/luaproc/README b/libraries/luaproc/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc37dfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries/luaproc/README
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+***************************************************
+*
+* Copyright 2008 Alexandre Skyrme, Noemi Rodriguez, Roberto Ierusalimschy
+* 
+* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+* 
+* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+* all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+* 
+* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+* AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+* LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+* OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+* THE SOFTWARE.
+* 
+*****************************************************
+*
+* [README]                                          
+*
+****************************************************
+
+
+**************
+* PARENT API *
+**************
+
+-- Create a new lua process
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.newproc( <string lua_code> )
+
+-- Create a new worker (pthread) 
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.createworker( <void> )
+
+-- Destroy a  worker (pthread) 
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.destroyworker( <void> )
+
+-- Synchronize workers (pthreads) and exit after all lua processes have ended
+-- No return, finishes execution.
+luaproc.exit( <void> )
+
+-- Set maximum lua processes that should be recycled (default = 0)
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.recycle( <int maxrecycle> )
+
+************************************************************
+* CHILD API                                                *
+* Available only to processes spawned                      *
+* with luaproc.newproc                                     *
+************************************************************
+
+-- Create a new lua process
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.newproc( <string lua_code> )
+
+-- Create a new worker (pthread) 
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.createworker( <void> )
+
+-- Destroy a worker (pthread) 
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.destroyworker( <void> )
+
+-- Send a message on a channel
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+-- Results in blocking if there is no matching receive
+luaproc.send( <string channel_name>, <string msg1>,
+				[string msg2], [string msg3], ... )
+
+-- Receive a message on a channel
+-- Returns message string(s) if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+-- Results in blocking if there is no matching send
+-- and the asynchronous flag is not set (nil) or set to false
+luaproc.receive( <string channel_name>, [boolean asynchronous] )
+
+-- Create a new channel
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.newchannel( <string channel_name> )
+
+-- Destroy a channel
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.delchannel( <string channel_name> )
+
+-- Set maximum lua processes that should be recycled (default = 0)
+-- Returns true if sucessful or nil, error_message if failed
+luaproc.recycle( <int maxrecycle> )
+
+<> = mandatory arguments
+[] = optional arguments
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