[vlc-devel] [PATCH] lua: fix polling

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le vendredi 18 mars 2011 23:20:58 Pierre Ynard, vous avez écrit :
> poll() revents are flags, and the lua module tests for equality...
> Obviously this has been working merely by accident given that a remote
> host resetting a connection generates only POLLIN, and neither POLLHUP
> nor POLLERR.
> 
> Apparently lua doesn't support bitwise operators. Unless someone has a
> smarter solution, I guess this should go in 1.1.8.

I don't understand why VLC-LUA provides poll() at all. How is this supposed to 
detect object "kills" or the interface getting shut down?

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