README.md

luafilesystem

Reimplement luafilesystem via LuaJIT FFI.

Docs

It should be compatible with vanilla luafilesystem but with unicode paths in windows: http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem/manual.html#reference

What you only need is replacing require('lfs') to require('lfs_ffi').`

On windows lfs.dir iterator will provide an extra return that can be used to get mode and size attributes in a much more performant way.

This is the canonical way to iterate:

    local sep = "/"
    for file,obj in lfs.dir(path) do
        if file ~= "." and file ~= ".." then
            local f = path..sep..file
            -- obj wont be nil in windows only
            local attr = obj and obj:attr() or lfs.attributes (f)
            assert (type(attr) == "table",f)
            -- do something with f and attr
        end
    end

Installation

cmake -DLUAJIT_DIR="path to luajit" ../luafilesystem
make install

or just copy lfs_ffi.lua to lua folder