REQ: full-duplex support

[escmarvin]

As far as I can tell there is currently no way to act upon events and send packets from the server to the clients? - Is this a planned feature?

[agentzh]

@escmarvin Yes, this is planned. Actually @aviramc has contributed a patch that allows a "light thread" to read a cosocket object while another "light thread" is writing to it: openresty/lua-nginx-module#290

I'm still reviewing @aviramc's patch and it's expected to get merged soon :)

[xeoncross]

Any news on this?

[agentzh]

@xeoncross I'll work on this soon :)

[agentzh]

Just FYI, the latest OpenResty 1.7.2.1 formal release already includes the full-duplex cosocket API by default (via ngx_lua 0.9.10).

It's worth mentioning that it is not recommended to use ngx_lua 0.9.9 though because it contains a bad regression that could lead to memory leaks in a special case. If you really want to use a standalone ngx_lua module instead of the openresty bundle, then use at least ngx_lua 0.9.10 instead.

[agentzh]

Because @ashun has success in using the new duplex cosocket feature with this library, I'm closing this :)