(local watch (require :watch)) ;; Events come from the devout socket as an initial summary line ;; followed by a NUL character followed by newline-separated key=value ;; pairs. For ease of editing we don't have NULs in events.txt, ;; so we need to massage it into shape here (local events (with-open [f (io.open "./events.txt" :r)] (let [text (string.gsub (f:read "*a") "\n\n" "\0") ] (icollect [n (string.gmatch text "([^\0]+)")] (string.gsub n "\n" "\0" 1))))) (fn next-event [] (var i 0) (fn [] (let [i_ (+ 1 i) e (. events i_)] (set i i_) e))) ;; this tests event parsing but not whether anything ;; happens as a result of processing them (watch.run-with-fh { :read (next-event) :write (fn [payload] ) } ["-s" "foo" "-n" (os.getenv "TMPDIR") "partname=backup-disk" ] ) (print "OK")