On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, duck <duck@roaming.ath.cx> wrote: > Forgive my ignorance (can't find an answer by searching), but can I map a http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.7 > specific file descriptor onto an io object? No, not without writing a C extension, which is easy, you'd write a variant of io_open() from: http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/liolib.c.html that calls fdopen() instead of fopen() Sam