Overhaul the config system with Lua

Walt Ford walt.ford at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 15 05:09:02 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:31:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Walt Ford wrote:
>>
>>I didn't know NetBSD put it in their kernel.
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/mbalmer/fosdem2012/kernel_mode_lua.pdf

That's interesting.  I think everything that doesn't go into a kernel
linker set is fair game for a rewrite to Lua, but they seem to have a
framework for allowing kernel subsystems to run Lua code too.  I wonder
how they handle concurrency and multithreading without modifying the
interpreter.

-- 
Walt


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