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From: Paul Emmerich <p.emmerich at first-colo.net> Hi, the new API for initramfs and files in master lacked the ability to build initramfs objects from files loaded via HTTP/TFTP in Lua. The documentation indicated that it should be possible (and I believe I did that in an older version). I implemented a few new functions to handle files/initramfs objects better. Changes: * NEW:

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes: > On 11/10/16 04:38, Paul Emmerich via Syslinux wrote: > >> Ferenc W?gner <wferi at niif.hu>: >> >>> for reading configuration files from disk. Does it not work with HTTP/ >>> TFTP for you? Using that, load_file could be implemented in Lua as: >> >> that does work, yes. It just

...> correctly. > > It was the "for completeness" part that I wanted to know. > > Incidentally, why do we copy the data if it is in a Lua string (or are > we?) Seems pointless to me. Are you asking about the following hunk? (No, you probably don't, skip!) +static int sl_filedata(lua_State * L) +{ + const syslinux_file *file = luaL_checkudata(L, 1, SYSLINUX_FILE); + + lua_pushlstring(L, file->data, file->size); + + return 1; +} This indeed copies the data from the syslinux_file structure (which is an opaque SYSLINUX_FILE object on the Lua side) into an (inte...