Lua 5.1 compatibility

It returns the resolved path of the symlink.

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.so
+

.travis.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+language: c
+
+sudo: false
+
+env:
+  - LUA="lua 5.1"
+  - LUA="lua 5.2"
+  - LUA="lua 5.3"
+  - LUA="luajit 2.0"
+
+before_install:
+  - pip install --user cpp-coveralls hererocks
+  - hererocks env --$LUA --luarocks latest
+  - export PATH="$PWD/env/bin:$PATH"
+  - luarocks install Lua-cURL --server=https://luarocks.org/dev
+  - luarocks install lua-path 
+  - luarocks install lua-cjson 
+  - luarocks install luacov
+  # install luacov-coveralls, but avoids installing luafilesystem
+  - luarocks install luacov-coveralls --server=https://luarocks.org/dev --deps-mode=none
+
+install:
+  - luarocks make rockspecs/luafilesystem-cvs-3.rockspec CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -ftest-coverage -fprofile-arcs" LIBFLAG="-shared --coverage"
+
+script:
+  - lua -lluacov tests/test.lua
+
+after_success:
+  - coveralls -b . -i src --dump c.report.json
+  - luacov-coveralls -j c.report.json -v
+
+notifications:
+  email:
+    on_success: change
+    on_failure: always

LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Copyright © 2003-2014 Kepler Project.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
+files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
+restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
+modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
+of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
+BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
+ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
+CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

Makefile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.33 2008/03/25 18:24:17 mascarenhas Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.36 2009/09/21 17:02:44 mascarenhas Exp $
 
 T= lfs
-V= 1.4.0
+
 CONFIG= ./config
 
 include $(CONFIG)
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ OBJS= src/$T.o
 lib: src/lfs.so
 
 src/lfs.so: $(OBJS)
-	export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET="10.3"; $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIB_OPTION) -o src/lfs.so $(OBJS)
+	MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET="10.3"; export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET; $(CC) $(LIB_OPTION) -o src/lfs.so $(OBJS)
+
+test: lib
+	LUA_CPATH=./src/?.so lua tests/test.lua
 
 install:
 	mkdir -p $(LUA_LIBDIR)

Makefile.win

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-# $Id: Makefile.win,v 1.10 2008/02/13 22:08:31 carregal Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile.win,v 1.11 2008/05/07 19:06:37 carregal Exp $
 
 T= lfs
-V= 1.4.0
 
 include config.win
 

README

@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-LuaFileSystem - File System Library for Lua
-Copyright 2003 Kepler Project
-http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem
-
-Description
------------
-LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions
-related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.
-
-LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the underlying directory structure and file attributes.
-LuaFileSystem is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1
-
-Current version is 1.4.0
-
-LuaRocks Installation
----------------------
-luarocks install luafilesystem
-
-Unix Installation
------------------
-To install on Linux/OSX/BSD, please edit the config file and then call
-
-make
-make install
-
-The last step may require root privileges.
-
-Windows Installation
---------------------
-To install on Windows, please copy lfs.ddl to your package.cpath directory
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Please check the documentation at /doc/us/ for more information.

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+[![Licence](http://img.shields.io/badge/Licence-MIT-brightgreen.svg)](LICENCE.txt)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/keplerproject/luafilesystem.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/keplerproject/luafilesystem)
+[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/y04s4ms7u16trw8e?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ignacio/luafilesystem)
+[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/keplerproject/luafilesystem/badge.png)](https://coveralls.io/r/keplerproject/luafilesystem)
+
+# LuaFileSystem - File System Library for Lua
+Copyright 2003-2016 Kepler Project
+
+http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem
+
+# Description
+
+LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions
+related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.
+
+LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+LuaFileSystem is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1
+
+# LuaRocks Installation
+
+```
+luarocks install luafilesystem
+```
+
+# Documentation
+
+Please check the documentation at doc/us/ for more information.

appveyor.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+version: 0.0.1.{build}-test
+
+# Use default image unless needed
+#os:
+#- Windows Server 2012 R2
+
+shallow_clone: true
+
+environment:
+  matrix:
+  - LUA: "lua 5.1"
+  - LUA: "lua 5.2 --compat none"
+  - LUA: "lua 5.3 --compat none"
+  - LUA: "luajit 2.0"
+  - LUA: "luajit 2.1"
+
+# Abuse this section so we can have a matrix with different Compiler versions
+configuration:
+  - mingw
+  - vs_32
+  - vs_64
+
+install:
+  - set PATH=%CD%\env\bin;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
+  - pip install hererocks
+  - hererocks env --%LUA% --target %configuration% --luarocks latest
+
+before_build:
+# @todo
+- echo "Installing external deps"
+
+build_script:
+- luarocks make rockspecs/luafilesystem-cvs-3.rockspec
+
+before_test:
+
+test_script:
+- echo "Testing..."
+- lua tests/test.lua
+
+after_test:
+# @todo

doc/us/doc.css

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+body { 
+    margin-left: 1em; 
+    margin-right: 1em; 
+    font-family: arial, helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;
+    background-color:#ffffff; margin:0px;
+}
+
+code {
+    font-family: "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+}
+
+tt {
+    font-family: "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+}
+
+body, td, th { font-size: 11pt; }
+
+h1, h2, h3, h4 { margin-left: 0em; }
+
+textarea, pre, tt { font-size:10pt; }
+body, td, th { color:#000000; }
+small { font-size:0.85em; }
+h1 { font-size:1.5em; }
+h2 { font-size:1.25em; }
+h3 { font-size:1.15em; }
+h4 { font-size:1.06em; }
+
+a:link { font-weight:bold; color: #004080; text-decoration: none; }
+a:visited { font-weight:bold; color: #006699; text-decoration: none; }
+a:link:hover { text-decoration:underline; }
+hr { color:#cccccc }
+img { border-width: 0px; }
+
+h3 { padding-top: 1em; }
+
+p { margin-left: 1em; }
+
+p.name { 
+    font-family: "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+    padding-top: 1em;
+    margin-left: 0em; 
+}
+
+blockquote { margin-left: 3em; }
+
+.example {
+    background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);
+    border-top-width: 1px;
+    border-right-width: 1px;
+    border-bottom-width: 1px;
+    border-left-width: 1px;
+    border-top-style: solid;
+    border-right-style: solid;
+    border-bottom-style: solid;
+    border-left-style: solid;
+    border-top-color: silver;
+    border-right-color: silver;
+    border-bottom-color: silver;
+    border-left-color: silver;
+    padding: 1em;
+    margin-left: 1em;
+    margin-right: 1em;
+    font-family: "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+    font-size: smaller;
+}
+
+hr { 
+    margin-left: 0em;
+    background: #00007f; 
+    border: 0px;
+    height: 1px;
+}
+
+ul { list-style-type: disc; }
+
+table.index { border: 1px #00007f; }
+table.index td { text-align: left; vertical-align: top; }
+table.index ul { padding-top: 0em; margin-top: 0em; }
+
+table {
+    border: 1px solid black;
+    border-collapse: collapse;
+    margin-left: auto;
+    margin-right: auto;
+}
+
+th {
+    border: 1px solid black;
+    padding: 0.5em;
+}
+
+td {
+    border: 1px solid black;
+    padding: 0.5em;
+}
+div.header, div.footer { margin-left: 0em; }
+
+#container {
+    margin-left: 1em;
+    margin-right: 1em;
+    background-color: #f0f0f0;
+}
+
+#product {
+    text-align: center;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
+    background-color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+#product big {
+    font-size: 2em;
+}
+
+#product_logo {
+}
+
+#product_name {
+}
+
+#product_description {
+}
+
+#main {
+    background-color: #f0f0f0;
+    border-left: 2px solid #cccccc;
+}
+
+#navigation {
+    float: left;
+    width: 12em;
+    margin: 0;
+    vertical-align: top;
+    background-color: #f0f0f0;
+    overflow:visible;
+}
+
+#navigation h1 {
+    background-color:#e7e7e7;
+    font-size:1.1em;
+    color:#000000;
+    text-align:left;
+    margin:0px;
+    padding:0.2em;
+    border-top:1px solid #dddddd;
+    border-bottom:1px solid #dddddd;
+}
+
+#navigation ul {
+    font-size:1em;
+    list-style-type: none;
+    padding: 0;
+    margin: 1px;
+}
+
+#navigation li {
+    text-indent: -1em;
+    margin: 0em 0em 0em 0.5em;
+    display: block;
+    padding: 3px 0px 0px 12px;
+}
+
+#navigation li li a {
+    padding: 0px 3px 0px -1em;
+}
+
+#content {
+    margin-left: 12em;
+    padding: 1em;
+    border-left: 2px solid #cccccc;
+    border-right: 2px solid #cccccc;
+    background-color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+#about {
+    clear: both;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 5px;
+    border-top: 2px solid #cccccc;
+    background-color: #ffffff;
+}
+
+@media print {
+    body {
+        font: 10pt "Times New Roman", "TimeNR", Times, serif;
+    }
+    a {
+        font-weight:bold; color: #004080; text-decoration: underline;
+    }
+    #main {
+        background-color: #ffffff; border-left: 0px;
+    }
+    #container {
+        margin-left: 2%; margin-right: 2%; background-color: #ffffff;
+    }
+    #content {
+        margin-left: 0px; padding: 1em; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;
+    }
+    #navigation {
+        display: none;
+    }
+    #product_logo {
+        display: none;
+    }
+    #about img {
+        display: none;
+    }
+    .example {
+        font-family: "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+        font-size: 8pt;
+        page-break-inside: avoid;
+    }
+}

doc/us/examples.html

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
 	<title>LuaFileSystem</title>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.keplerproject.org/doc.css" type="text/css"/>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="doc.css" type="text/css"/>
 	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
 </head>
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 <div id="product">
 	<div id="product_logo">
-        <a href="http://www.keplerproject.org">
+        <a href="http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem">
 		<img alt="LuaFileSystem" src="luafilesystem.png"/>
 	    </a>
     </div>
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 				<li><a href="index.html#download">Download</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#history">History</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#credits">Credits</a></li>
-				<li><a href="index.html#contact">Contact us</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><a href="manual.html">Manual</a>
@@ -45,10 +44,10 @@
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><strong>Examples</strong></li>
-        <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luafilesystem/">Project</a>
+        <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Project</a>
             <ul>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66">Bug Tracker</a></li>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/scm/?group_id=66">CVS</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem/issues">Bug Tracker</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Git</a></li>
             </ul>
         </li>
 		<li><a href="license.html">License</a></li>
@@ -65,7 +64,7 @@
 attributes for each file inside it.</p>
 
 <pre class="example">
-require"lfs"
+local lfs = require"lfs"
 
 function attrdir (path)
     for file in lfs.dir(path) do
@@ -94,7 +93,6 @@ attrdir (".")
 
 <div id="about">
 	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: examples.html,v 1.8 2007/12/14 15:28:04 carregal Exp $</small></p>
 </div> <!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div> <!-- id="container" -->

doc/us/index.html

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
 	<title>LuaFileSystem</title>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.keplerproject.org/doc.css" type="text/css"/>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="doc.css" type="text/css"/>
 	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
 </head>
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 <div id="product">
 	<div id="product_logo">
-        <a href="http://www.keplerproject.org">
+        <a href="http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem">
 		<img alt="LuaFileSystem" src="luafilesystem.png"/>
 	    </a>
     </div>
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 				<li><a href="index.html#download">Download</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#history">History</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#credits">Credits</a></li>
-				<li><a href="index.html#contact">Contact us</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><a href="manual.html">Manual</a>
@@ -45,10 +44,10 @@
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></li>
-        <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luafilesystem/">Project</a>
+        <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Project</a>
             <ul>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66">Bug Tracker</a></li>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/scm/?group_id=66">CVS</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem/issues">Bug Tracker</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Git</a></li>
             </ul>
         </li>
 		<li><a href="license.html">License</a></li>
@@ -67,23 +66,74 @@ systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.</p>
 the underlying directory structure and file attributes.</p>
 
 <p>LuaFileSystem is free software and uses the same
-<a href="license.html">license</a> as Lua 5.1.</p>
+<a href="license.html">license</a> as Lua 5.x (MIT).</p>
 
 <h2><a name="status"></a>Status</h2>
 
-<p>Current version is 1.4.0. It was developed for Lua 5.1.</p>
+<p>Current version is 1.6.3. It works with Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3.</p>
 
 <h2><a name="download"></a>Download</h2>
 
 <p>LuaFileSystem source can be downloaded from its
-<a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luafilesystem/files">Lua Forge</a>
-page. If you are using
-<a href="http://luabinaries.luaforge.net">LuaBinaries</a> 5.1.3 a Windows binary
-version of LuaFileSystem (compiled with Visual Studio 2005 Express) can be found at the same LuaForge page.</p>
+<a href="http://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Github</a>
+page.</p>
 
 <h2><a name="history"></a>History</h2>
 
 <dl class="history">
+	<dt><strong>Version 1.6.3</strong> [15/Jan/2015]</dt>
+	<dd><ul>
+        <li>Lua 5.3 support.</li>
+        <li>Assorted bugfixes.</li>
+	</ul></dd>
+
+	<dt><strong>Version 1.6.2</strong> [??/Oct/2012]</dt>
+	<dd><ul>
+        <li>Full Lua 5.2 compatibility (with Lua 5.1 fallbacks)</li>
+	</ul></dd>
+
+	<dt><strong>Version 1.6.1</strong> [01/Oct/2012]</dt>
+	<dd><ul>
+        <li>fix build for Lua 5.2</li>
+	</ul></dd>
+
+	<dt><strong>Version 1.6.0</strong> [26/Sep/2012]</dt>
+	<dd><ul>
+       <li>getcwd fix for Android</li>
+        <li>support for Lua 5.2</li>
+        <li>add lfs.link</li>
+        <li>other bug fixes</li>
+	</ul></dd>
+ 
+	<dt><strong>Version 1.5.0</strong> [20/Oct/2009]</dt>
+	<dd><ul>
+	<li>Added explicit next and close methods to second return value of lfs.dir 
+(the directory object), for explicit iteration or explicit closing.</li>
+	<li>Added directory locking via lfs.lock_dir function (see the <a href="manual.html">manual</a>).</li>
+	</ul></dd>
+	<dt><strong>Version 1.4.2</strong> [03/Feb/2009]</dt>
+	<dd>
+		<ul>
+			<li>fixed bug
+				<code>lfs.attributes(filename, 'size')</code> overflow on files > 2 Gb again  (bug report and patch by KUBO Takehiro).</li>
+			<li>fixed bug
+				Compile error on Solaris 10 (bug report and patch by Aaron B).</li>
+			<li>fixed compilation problems with Borland C.</li>
+		</ul>
+	</dd>
+	
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.4.1</strong> [07/May/2008]</dt>
+	<dd>
+	<ul>
+	<li>documentation review</li>
+	<li>fixed Windows compilation issues</li>
+	<li>fixed bug in the Windows tests (patch by Shmuel Zeigerman)</li>
+	<li>fixed bug
+		<code>lfs.attributes(filename, 'size')</code> overflow on files > 2 Gb
+	</li>
+	</ul>
+	</dd>
+	
     <dt><strong>Version 1.4.0</strong> [13/Feb/2008]</dt>
     <dd>
     <ul>
@@ -95,7 +145,7 @@ version of LuaFileSystem (compiled with Visual Studio 2005 Express) can be found
     </ul>
     </dd>
     
-    <dt><strong><a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/1.3/">Version 1.3.0</a></strong> [26/Oct/2007]</dt>
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.3.0</strong> [26/Oct/2007]</dt>
     <dd>
     <ul>
         <li>added function
@@ -104,14 +154,14 @@ version of LuaFileSystem (compiled with Visual Studio 2005 Express) can be found
     </ul>
     </dd>
 
-    <dt><strong><a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/1.2/">Version 1.2.1</a></strong> [08/May/2007]</dt>
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.2.1</strong> [08/May/2007]</dt>
     <dd>
     <ul>
         <li>compatible only with Lua 5.1 (Lua 5.0 support was dropped)</li>
     </ul>
     </dd>
 
-    <dt><strong><a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/1.2/">Version 1.2</a></strong> [15/Mar/2006]</dt>
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.2</strong> [15/Mar/2006]</dt>
     <dd>
     <ul>
         <li>added optional argument to
@@ -122,14 +172,14 @@ version of LuaFileSystem (compiled with Visual Studio 2005 Express) can be found
     </ul>
     </dd>
 
-    <dt><strong><a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/1.1/">Version 1.1</a></strong> [30/May/2005]</dt>
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.1</strong> [30/May/2005]</dt>
     <dd>
     <ul>
         <li>added function <a href="manual.html#touch"><code>lfs.touch</code></a>.</li>
     </ul>
     </dd>
 
-    <dt><strong><a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/1.0/">Version 1.0</a></strong> [21/Jan/2005]</dt>
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.0</strong> [21/Jan/2005]</dt>
     <dd />
 
     <dt><strong>Version 1.0 Beta</strong> [10/Nov/2004]</dt>
@@ -140,17 +190,8 @@ version of LuaFileSystem (compiled with Visual Studio 2005 Express) can be found
 
 <p>LuaFileSystem was designed by Roberto Ierusalimschy,
 Andr&eacute; Carregal and Tom&aacute;s Guisasola as part of the
-<a href="http://www.keplerproject.org">Kepler Project</a>,
-which holds its copyright.</p>
-
-<h2><a name="contact"></a>Contact us</h2>
-
-<p>For more information please
-<a href="mailto:info-NO-SPAM-THANKS@keplerproject.org">contact us</a>.
-Comments are welcome!</p>
-
-<p>You can also reach other Kepler developers and users on the Kepler Project
-<a href="http://luaforge.net/mail/?group_id=104">mailing list</a>.</p>
+<a href="https://github.com/keplerproject">Kepler Project</a>,
+which holds its copyright. LuaFileSystem is currently maintained by F&aacute;bio Mascarenhas.</p>
 
 </div> <!-- id="content" -->
 
@@ -158,7 +199,6 @@ Comments are welcome!</p>
 
 <div id="about">
 	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: index.html,v 1.41 2008/02/18 17:20:16 carregal Exp $</small></p>
 </div> <!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div> <!-- id="container" -->

doc/us/license.html

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
 	<title>LuaFileSystem</title>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.keplerproject.org/doc.css" type="text/css"/>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="doc.css" type="text/css"/>
 	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
 </head>
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 <div id="product">
 	<div id="product_logo">
-        <a href="http://www.keplerproject.org">
+        <a href="http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem">
 		<img alt="LuaFileSystem" src="luafilesystem.png"/>
 	    </a>
     </div>
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 				<li><a href="index.html#download">Download</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#history">History</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#credits">Credits</a></li>
-				<li><a href="index.html#contact">Contact us</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><a href="manual.html">Manual</a>
@@ -45,10 +44,10 @@
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></li>
-        <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luafilesystem/">Project</a>
+        <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Project</a>
             <ul>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66">Bug Tracker</a></li>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/scm/?group_id=66">CVS</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem/issues">Bug Tracker</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Git</a></li>
             </ul>
         </li>
 		<li><strong>License</strong></li>
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ software.
 Its licenses are compatible with
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>.
 LuaFileSystem is not in the public domain and the
-<a href="http://www.keplerproject.org">Kepler Project</a>
+<a href="https://github.com/keplerproject">Kepler Project</a>
 keep its copyright.
 The legal details are below. 
 </p>
@@ -113,7 +112,6 @@ SOFTWARE.</p>
 
 <div id="about">
 	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: license.html,v 1.13 2008/02/11 22:42:21 carregal Exp $</small></p>
 </div><!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div><!-- id="container" -->

doc/us/manual.html

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
 	<title>LuaFileSystem</title>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.keplerproject.org/doc.css" type="text/css"/>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="doc.css" type="text/css"/>
 	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
 </head>
 
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 
 <div id="product">
 	<div id="product_logo">
-        <a href="http://www.keplerproject.org"><img alt="LuaFileSystem" src="luafilesystem.png"/></a>
+        <a href="http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem">
+        <img alt="LuaFileSystem" src="luafilesystem.png"/>
+        </a>
     </div>
 	<div id="product_name"><big><strong>LuaFileSystem</strong></big></div>
 	<div id="product_description">File System Library for the Lua Programming Language</div>
@@ -31,7 +33,6 @@
 				<li><a href="index.html#download">Download</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#history">History</a></li>
 				<li><a href="index.html#credits">Credits</a></li>
-				<li><a href="index.html#contact">Contact us</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><strong>Manual</strong>
@@ -43,10 +44,10 @@
 			</ul>
 		</li>
 		<li><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></li>
-        <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luafilesystem/">Project</a>
+        <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Project</a>
             <ul>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66">Bug Tracker</a></li>
-                <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/scm/?group_id=66">CVS</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem/issues">Bug Tracker</a></li>
+                <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Git</a></li>
             </ul>
         </li>
 		<li><a href="license.html">License</a></li>
@@ -80,6 +81,9 @@ The file has some definitions like paths to the external libraries,
 compiler options and the like.
 </p>
 
+<p>On Windows, the C runtime used to compile LuaFileSystem must be the same
+runtime that Lua uses, or some LuaFileSystem functions will not work.</p>
+
 <h2><a name="installation"></a>Installation</h2>
 
 <p>The easiest way to install LuaFileSystem is to use LuaRocks:</p>
@@ -98,14 +102,15 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
 </p>
 
 <dl class="reference">
-    <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
+    <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath [, aname | atable])</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Returns a table with the file attributes corresponding to
     <code>filepath</code> (or <code>nil</code> followed by an error message
     in case of error).
-    If the second optional argument is given, then only the value of the
+    If the second optional argument is given and is a string, then only the value of the
     named attribute is returned (this use is equivalent to
-    <code>lfs.attributes(filepath).aname</code>, but the table is not created
+    <code>lfs.attributes(filepath)[aname]</code>, but the table is not created
     and only one attribute is retrieved from the O.S.).
+    if a table is passed as the second argument, it is filled with attributes and returned instead of a new table.
     The attributes are described as follows;
     attribute <code>mode</code> is a string, all the others are numbers,
     and the time related attributes use the same time reference of
@@ -149,6 +154,9 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
         <dt><strong><code>size</code></strong></dt>
 		<dd>file size, in bytes</dd>
 
+        <dt><strong><code>permissions</code></strong></dt>
+		<dd>file permissions string</dd>
+
         <dt><strong><code>blocks</code></strong></dt>
 		<dd>block allocated for file; (Unix only)</dd>
         
@@ -168,16 +176,27 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
     <code>path</code>.<br />
     Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code> plus an
     error string.</dd>
+
+    <dt><a name="chdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.lock_dir(path, [seconds_stale])</code></strong></dt>
+    <dd>Creates a lockfile (called lockfile.lfs) in <code>path</code> if it does not
+  exist and returns the lock. If the lock already exists checks if
+  it's stale, using the second parameter (default for the second
+  parameter is <code>INT_MAX</code>, which in practice means the lock will never
+  be stale. To free the the lock call <code>lock:free()</code>. <br/>
+   In case of any errors it returns nil and the error message. In
+  particular, if the lock exists and is not stale it returns the
+  "File exists" message.</dd>
         
     <dt><a name="getcwd"></a><strong><code>lfs.currentdir ()</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Returns a string with the current working directory or <code>nil</code>
     plus an error string.</dd>
     
-    <dt><a name="dir"></a><strong><code>lfs.dir (path)</code></strong></dt>
+    <dt><a name="dir"></a><strong><code>iter, dir_obj = lfs.dir (path)</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>
     Lua iterator over the entries of a given directory.
-    Each time the iterator is called it returns a directory entry's name as a string, or
-    <code>nil</code> if there are no more entries.
+    Each time the iterator is called with <code>dir_obj</code> it returns a directory entry's name as a string, or
+    <code>nil</code> if there are no more entries. You can also iterate by calling <code>dir_obj:next()</code>, and
+    explicitly close the directory before the iteration finished with <code>dir_obj:close()</code>.
     Raises an error if <code>path</code> is not a directory.
     </dd>
     
@@ -192,6 +211,13 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
     Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful; in
     case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.
     </dd>
+
+    <dt><a name="link"></a><strong><code>lfs.link (old, new[, symlink])</code></strong></dt>
+    <dd>Creates a link. The first argument is the object to link to
+    and the second is the name of the link. If the optional third
+    argument is true, the link will by a symbolic link (by default, a
+    hard link is created).
+    </dd>
     
     <dt><a name="mkdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.mkdir (dirname)</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Creates a new directory. The argument is the name of the new
@@ -206,16 +232,20 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
     in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.</dd>
 
     <dt><a name="setmode"></a><strong><code>lfs.setmode (file, mode)</code></strong></dt>
-    <dd>Sets the writing mode for a file. The mode string can be either <code>binary</code> or <code>text</code>.
-    Returns the previous mode string for the file. This function is only available in Windows, so you may want to make sure that
-    <code>lfs.setmode</code> exists before using it.
+    <dd>Sets the writing mode for a file. The mode string can be either <code>"binary"</code> or <code>"text"</code>.
+    Returns <code>true</code> followed the previous mode string for the file, or
+    <code>nil</code> followed by an error string in case of errors.
+    On non-Windows platforms, where the two modes are identical,
+    setting the mode has no effect, and the mode is always returned as <code>binary</code>.
     </dd>
     
     <dt><a name="symlinkattributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.symlinkattributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Identical to <a href="#attributes">lfs.attributes</a> except that
     it obtains information about the link itself (not the file it refers to).
-    This function is not available in Windows so you may want to make sure that
-    <code>lfs.symlinkattributes</code> exists before using it.
+    It also adds a <strong><code>target</code></strong> field, containing
+    the file name that the symlink points to.
+    On Windows this function does not yet support links, and is identical to
+    <code>lfs.attributes</code>.
     </dd>
 
     <dt><a name="touch"></a><strong><code>lfs.touch (filepath [, atime [, mtime]])</code></strong></dt>
@@ -248,7 +278,6 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
 
 <div id="about">
 	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: manual.html,v 1.42 2008/03/24 18:17:59 carregal Exp $</small></p>
 </div> <!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div> <!-- id="container" -->

rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.4.1-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+version = "1.4.1-1"
+source = {
+   url = "http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/3345/luafilesystem-1.4.1.tar.gz",
+}
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]]
+}
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+build = {
+   platforms = {
+     unix = {
+        type = "make",
+       	build_variables = {
+         LIB_OPTION = "$(LIBFLAG)",
+         CFLAGS = "$(CFLAGS) -I$(LUA_INCDIR) $(STAT64)",
+       	},
+       	install_variables = {
+         LUA_LIBDIR = "$(LIBDIR)"
+       	}
+     },
+     win32 = {
+        type = "make",
+       	build_variables = {
+         LUA_LIB = "$(LUA_LIBDIR)\\lua5.1.lib",
+         CFLAGS = "/MD $(CFLAGS) /I$(LUA_INCDIR)",
+       	},
+       	install_variables = {
+         LUA_LIBDIR = "$(LIBDIR)",
+         LUA_DIR = "$(LUADIR)",
+	 	 BIN_DIR = "$(BINDIR)"
+       	}
+     }
+  }
+}

rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.4.2-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+
+version = "1.4.2-1"
+
+source = {
+   url = "http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/3931/luafilesystem-1.4.2.tar.gz",
+}
+
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]]
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+
+build = {
+   type = "module",
+   modules = { lfs = "src/lfs.c" }
+}

rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.5.0-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+
+version = "1.5.0-1"
+
+source = {
+   url = "http://cloud.github.com/downloads/keplerproject/luafilesystem/luafilesystem-1.5.0.tar.gz",
+}
+
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]]
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+
+build = {
+   type = "module",
+   modules = { lfs = "src/lfs.c" },
+   copy_directories = { "doc", "tests" }
+}

rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.6.0-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+
+version = "1.6.0-1"
+
+source = {
+   url = "https://github.com/downloads/keplerproject/luafilesystem/luafilesystem-1.6.0.tar.gz",
+}
+
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]]
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = { lfs = "src/lfs.c" },
+   copy_directories = { "doc", "tests" }
+}

rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.6.1-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+
+version = "1.6.1-1"
+
+source = {
+   url = "https://github.com/downloads/keplerproject/luafilesystem/luafilesystem-1.6.1.tar.gz",
+}
+
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]]
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = { lfs = "src/lfs.c" },
+   copy_directories = { "doc", "tests" }
+}

rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.6.2-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+
+version = "1.6.2-1"
+
+source = {
+   url = "https://github.com/downloads/keplerproject/luafilesystem/luafilesystem-1.6.2.tar.gz",
+}
+
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]]
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = { lfs = "src/lfs.c" },
+   copy_directories = { "doc", "tests" }
+}

rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.6.3-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+version = "1.6.3-1"
+source = {
+   url = "git://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem",
+   tag = "v_1_6_3",
+}
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]],
+   license = "MIT/X11",
+}
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = {
+      lfs = "src/lfs.c"
+   },
+   copy_directories = {
+      "doc", "tests"
+   }
+}

rockspecs/luafilesystem-cvs-2.rockspec

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package = "LuaFileSystem"
+
 version = "cvs-2"
+
 source = {
-   url = "cvs://:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.luaforge.net:/cvsroot/luafilesystem",
-   cvs_tag = "HEAD"
+   url = "git://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem.git",
 }
+
 description = {
    summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
    detailed = [[
@@ -13,32 +15,12 @@ description = {
       underlying directory structure and file attributes.
    ]]
 }
+
 dependencies = {
    "lua >= 5.1"
 }
+
 build = {
-   platforms = {
-     unix = {
-        type = "make",
-       	build_variables = {
-         LIB_OPTION = "$(LIBFLAG)",
-         CFLAGS = "$(CFLAGS) -I$(LUA_INCDIR) $(STAT64)",
-       	},
-       	install_variables = {
-         LUA_LIBDIR = "$(LIBDIR)"
-       	}
-     },
-     win32 = {
-        type = "make",
-       	build_variables = {
-         LUA_LIB = "$(LUA_LIBDIR)\\lua5.1.lib",
-         CFLAGS = "/MD $(CFLAGS) /I$(LUA_INCDIR)",
-       	},
-       	install_variables = {
-         LUA_LIBDIR = "$(LIBDIR)",
-         LUA_DIR = "$(LUADIR)",
-	 	 BIN_DIR = "$(BINDIR)"
-       	}
-     }
-  }
+   type = "module",
+   modules = { lfs = "src/lfs.c" }
 }

rockspecs/luafilesystem-cvs-3.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package = "LuaFileSystem"
+
+version = "cvs-3"
+
+source = {
+   url = "git://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem.git",
+}
+
+description = {
+   summary = "File System Library for the Lua Programming Language",
+   detailed = [[
+      LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of
+      functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua
+      distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the
+      underlying directory structure and file attributes.
+   ]]
+}
+
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1, < 5.4"
+}
+
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = { lfs = "src/lfs.c" },
+   copy_directories = { "doc", "tests" }
+}

src/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.o
+*.so

src/lfs.def

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 LIBRARY lfs.dll
-DESCRIPTION "LuaFileSystem"
-VERSION 1.4.0
+VERSION 1.6
 EXPORTS
 luaopen_lfs

src/lfs.h

@@ -1,17 +1,34 @@
 /*
 ** LuaFileSystem
-** Copyright Kepler Project 2003 (http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem)
-**
-** $Id: lfs.h,v 1.5 2008/02/19 20:08:23 mascarenhas Exp $
+** Copyright Kepler Project 2003 - 2016 (http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem)
 */
 
 /* Define 'chdir' for systems that do not implement it */
 #ifdef NO_CHDIR
-#define chdir(p)	(-1)
-#define chdir_error	"Function 'chdir' not provided by system"
+  #define chdir(p)	(-1)
+  #define chdir_error	"Function 'chdir' not provided by system"
 #else
-#define chdir_error	strerror(errno)
+  #define chdir_error	strerror(errno)
 #endif
 
+#ifdef _WIN32
+  #define chdir(p) (_chdir(p))
+  #define getcwd(d, s) (_getcwd(d, s))
+  #define rmdir(p) (_rmdir(p))
+  #define LFS_EXPORT __declspec (dllexport)
+  #ifndef fileno
+    #define fileno(f) (_fileno(f))
+  #endif
+#else
+  #define LFS_EXPORT
+#endif
 
-int luaopen_lfs (lua_State *L);
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+LFS_EXPORT  int luaopen_lfs (lua_State *L);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif

tests/test.lua

@@ -1,28 +1,31 @@
-#!/usr/local/bin/lua5.1
+#!/usr/bin/env lua5.1
 
 local tmp = "/tmp"
-local sep = "/"
+local sep = string.match (package.config, "[^\n]+")
 local upper = ".."
 
-require"lfs"
+local lfs = require"lfs"
 print (lfs._VERSION)
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 function attrdir (path)
-	for file in lfs.dir(path) do
-		if file ~= "." and file ~= ".." then
-			local f = path..sep..file
-			print ("\t=> "..f.." <=")
-			local attr = lfs.attributes (f)
-			assert (type(attr) == "table")
-			if attr.mode == "directory" then
-				attrdir (f)
-			else
-				for name, value in pairs(attr) do
-					print (name, value)
-				end
-			end
-		end
-	end
+        for file in lfs.dir(path) do
+                if file ~= "." and file ~= ".." then
+                        local f = path..sep..file
+                        print ("\t=> "..f.." <=")
+                        local attr = lfs.attributes (f)
+                        assert (type(attr) == "table")
+                        if attr.mode == "directory" then
+                                attrdir (f)
+                        else
+                                for name, value in pairs(attr) do
+                                        print (name, value)
+                                end
+                        end
+                end
+        end
 end
 
 -- Checking changing directories
@@ -33,6 +36,9 @@ assert (lfs.chdir (reldir), "could not change back to current directory")
 assert (lfs.currentdir() == current, "error trying to change directories")
 assert (lfs.chdir ("this couldn't be an actual directory") == nil, "could change to a non-existent directory")
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Changing creating and removing directories
 local tmpdir = current..sep.."lfs_tmp_dir"
 local tmpfile = tmpdir..sep.."tmp_file"
@@ -40,19 +46,25 @@ local tmpfile = tmpdir..sep.."tmp_file"
 -- that may have resulted from an interrupted test execution and remove it
 if lfs.chdir (tmpdir) then
     assert (lfs.chdir (upper), "could not change to upper directory")
-    assert (os.remove (tmpfile), "could not remove file from previous test")    
+    assert (os.remove (tmpfile), "could not remove file from previous test")
     assert (lfs.rmdir (tmpdir), "could not remove directory from previous test")
 end
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- tries to create a directory
 assert (lfs.mkdir (tmpdir), "could not make a new directory")
 local attrib, errmsg = lfs.attributes (tmpdir)
 if not attrib then
-	error ("could not get attributes of file `"..tmpdir.."':\n"..errmsg)
+        error ("could not get attributes of file `"..tmpdir.."':\n"..errmsg)
 end
 local f = io.open(tmpfile, "w")
 f:close()
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Change access time
 local testdate = os.time({ year = 2007, day = 10, month = 2, hour=0})
 assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, testdate))
@@ -60,6 +72,9 @@ local new_att = assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile))
 assert (new_att.access == testdate, "could not set access time")
 assert (new_att.modification == testdate, "could not set modification time")
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Change access and modification time
 local testdate1 = os.time({ year = 2007, day = 10, month = 2, hour=0})
 local testdate2 = os.time({ year = 2007, day = 11, month = 2, hour=0})
@@ -69,45 +84,97 @@ local new_att = assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile))
 assert (new_att.access == testdate2, "could not set access time")
 assert (new_att.modification == testdate1, "could not set modification time")
 
-local res, err = lfs.symlinkattributes(tmpfile)
-if err ~= "symlinkattributes not supported on this platform" then
-    -- Checking symbolic link information (does not work in Windows)
-    assert (os.execute ("ln -s "..tmpfile.." _a_link_for_test_"))
-    assert (lfs.attributes"_a_link_for_test_".mode == "file")
-    assert (lfs.symlinkattributes"_a_link_for_test_".mode == "link")
-    assert (os.remove"_a_link_for_test_")
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
+-- Checking link (does not work on Windows)
+if lfs.link (tmpfile, "_a_link_for_test_", true) then
+  assert (lfs.attributes"_a_link_for_test_".mode == "file")
+  assert (lfs.symlinkattributes"_a_link_for_test_".mode == "link")
+  assert (lfs.symlinkattributes"_a_link_for_test_".target == tmpfile)
+  assert (lfs.symlinkattributes("_a_link_for_test_", "target") == tmpfile)
+  assert (lfs.link (tmpfile, "_a_hard_link_for_test_"))
+  assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile, "nlink") == 2)
+  assert (os.remove"_a_link_for_test_")
+  assert (os.remove"_a_hard_link_for_test_")
 end
 
-if lfs.setmode then
-    -- Checking text/binary modes (works only in Windows)
-    local f = io.open(tmpfile, "w")
-    local result, mode = lfs.setmode(f, "binary")
-    assert((result and mode == "text") or (not result and mode == "setmode not supported on this platform"))
-    result, mode = lfs.setmode(f, "text")
-    assert((result and mode == "binary") or (not result and mode == "setmode not supported on this platform"))
-    f:close()
-end
-    
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
+-- Checking text/binary modes (only has an effect in Windows)
+local f = io.open(tmpfile, "w")
+local result, mode = lfs.setmode(f, "binary")
+assert(result) -- on non-Windows platforms, mode is always returned as "binary"
+result, mode = lfs.setmode(f, "text")
+assert(result and mode == "binary")
+f:close()
+local ok, err = pcall(lfs.setmode, f, "binary")
+assert(not ok, "could setmode on closed file")
+assert(err:find("closed file"), "bad error message for setmode on closed file")
+
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Restore access time to current value
 assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, attrib.access, attrib.modification))
 new_att = assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile))
 assert (new_att.access == attrib.access)
 assert (new_att.modification == attrib.modification)
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
+-- Check consistency of lfs.attributes values
+local attr = lfs.attributes (tmpfile)
+for key, value in pairs(attr) do
+  assert (value == lfs.attributes (tmpfile, key),
+          "lfs.attributes values not consistent")
+end
+
 -- Remove new file and directory
 assert (os.remove (tmpfile), "could not remove new file")
 assert (lfs.rmdir (tmpdir), "could not remove new directory")
 assert (lfs.mkdir (tmpdir..sep.."lfs_tmp_dir") == nil, "could create a directory inside a non-existent one")
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Trying to get attributes of a non-existent file
 assert (lfs.attributes ("this couldn't be an actual file") == nil, "could get attributes of a non-existent file")
 assert (type(lfs.attributes (upper)) == "table", "couldn't get attributes of upper directory")
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Stressing directory iterator
 count = 0
 for i = 1, 4000 do
-	for file in lfs.dir (tmp) do
-		count = count + 1
-	end
+        for file in lfs.dir (tmp) do
+                count = count + 1
+        end
 end
+
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
+-- Stressing directory iterator, explicit version
+count = 0
+for i = 1, 4000 do
+  local iter, dir = lfs.dir(tmp)
+  local file = dir:next()
+  while file do
+    count = count + 1
+    file = dir:next()
+  end
+  assert(not pcall(dir.next, dir))
+end
+
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
+-- directory explicit close
+local iter, dir = lfs.dir(tmp)
+dir:close()
+assert(not pcall(dir.next, dir))
 print"Ok!"