Whenever I need to do network things in Lua, I refer to the turbo.lua framework, which I've used in the past on other projects and I just find it so useful: ht

Whenever I need to do network things in Lua, I refer to the turbo.lua framework, which I've used in the past on other projects and I just find it so useful: https://turbo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://turbo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Whether its a set of file descriptors, a network socket, or some higher level session abstraction, I can usually find the 'best' way to deal with it by inspecting the turbo.lua sources - or, if feasible, I just use turbo.lua for the application on the table. It has been a seriously valuable tool in the 'get some networking/signals/fd_set thing working as quickly as possible" department. Not that I'm suggesting the author switch to it, just that there is already a battle-tested and well-proven Lua-based framework for these things, and its worth investigating how it manages these abstractions. The distinction between local and IP sockets is well managed, also ..