accept high-precision timestamps in lfs.touch

Also check nlink on Unix only
and test if something is a symlink

.gitignore

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

.travis.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+language: generic
+sudo: false
+
+jobs:
+  - os: linux
+    env:
+    - LUA="lua 5.1"
+      LIBFLAG="-shared --coverage"
+  - os: linux
+    env:
+    - LUA="lua 5.2"
+      LIBFLAG="-shared --coverage"
+  - os: linux
+    env:
+    - LUA="lua 5.3"
+      LIBFLAG="-shared --coverage"
+  - os: linux
+    env:
+    - LUA="lua 5.4"
+      LIBFLAG="-shared --coverage"
+  - os: linux
+    env:
+    - LUA="luajit 2.1"
+      LIBFLAG="-shared --coverage"
+  - os: osx
+    env:
+    - LUA="lua 5.1"
+      LIBFLAG="-bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -all_load --coverage"
+
+before_install:
+  - pip install cpp-coveralls hererocks
+  - hererocks env --$LUA --luarocks latest
+  - export PATH="$PWD/env/bin:$PATH"
+  - luarocks install lua-path 
+  - luarocks install dkjson
+  - luarocks install luacov
+  # install luacov-coveralls, but avoid installing luafilesystem
+  - luarocks install luacov-coveralls --server=https://luarocks.org/dev --deps-mode=none
+
+install:
+  - luarocks make CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -ftest-coverage -fprofile-arcs" LIBFLAG="$LIBFLAG"
+
+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

@@ -1,28 +1,25 @@
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.26 2005/06/27 17:06:01 tomas Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.36 2009/09/21 17:02:44 mascarenhas Exp $
 
 T= lfs
-V= 1.2
+
 CONFIG= ./config
 
 include $(CONFIG)
 
-COMPAT_O= $(COMPAT_DIR)/compat-5.1.o
 SRCS= src/$T.c
-OBJS= src/$T.o $(COMPAT_O)
+OBJS= src/$T.o
 
+lib: src/lfs.so
 
-lib: src/$(LIBNAME)
+src/lfs.so: $(OBJS)
+	MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=$(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET); export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET; $(CC) $(LIB_OPTION) -o src/lfs.so $(OBJS)
 
-src/$(LIBNAME): $(OBJS)
-	export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET="10.3"; $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIB_OPTION) -o src/$(LIBNAME) $(OBJS)
+test: lib
+	LUA_CPATH=./src/?.so lua tests/test.lua
 
-$(COMPAT_O): $(COMPAT_DIR)/compat-5.1.c
-	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(COMPAT_DIR)/compat-5.1.c
-
-install: src/$(LIBNAME)
-	mkdir -p $(LUA_LIBDIR)
-	cp src/$(LIBNAME) $(LUA_LIBDIR)
-	cd $(LUA_LIBDIR); ln -f -s $(LIBNAME) $T.so
+install:
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(LUA_LIBDIR)
+	cp src/lfs.so $(DESTDIR)$(LUA_LIBDIR)
 
 clean:
-	rm -f src/$(LIBNAME) $(OBJS) $(COMPAT_O)
+	rm -f src/lfs.so $(OBJS)

Makefile.win

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# $Id: Makefile.win,v 1.11 2008/05/07 19:06:37 carregal Exp $
+
+T= lfs
+
+include config.win
+
+SRCS= src\$T.c
+OBJS= src\$T.obj
+
+lib: src\lfs.dll
+
+.c.obj:
+	$(CC) /c /Fo$@ $(CFLAGS) $<
+
+src\lfs.dll: $(OBJS)
+	link /dll /def:src\$T.def /out:src\lfs.dll $(OBJS) "$(LUA_LIB)"
+	IF EXIST src\lfs.dll.manifest mt -manifest src\lfs.dll.manifest -outputresource:src\lfs.dll;2
+
+install: src\lfs.dll
+	IF NOT EXIST "$(LUA_LIBDIR)" mkdir "$(LUA_LIBDIR)"
+	copy src\lfs.dll "$(LUA_LIBDIR)"
+
+clean:
+	del src\lfs.dll $(OBJS) src\$T.lib src\$T.exp
+	IF EXIST src\lfs.dll.manifest del src\lfs.dll.manifest

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[![License](http://img.shields.io/badge/Licence-MIT-brightgreen.svg)](LICENSE)
+[![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 2003-2020 Kepler Project
+
+https://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.x (MIT).
+
+# LuaRocks Installation
+
+```
+luarocks install luafilesystem
+```
+
+# Documentation
+
+Please check the documentation at doc/us/ for more information.

appveyor.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+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 2.1"
+
+# 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
+
+before_test:
+
+test_script:
+- echo "Testing..."
+- lua tests/test.lua
+
+after_test:
+# @todo

config

@@ -1,20 +1,28 @@
 # Installation directories
+
+# Default installation prefix
+PREFIX=/usr/local
+
+LUA_VERSION = 5.1
+
 # System's libraries directory (where binary libraries are installed)
-LUA_LIBDIR= /usr/local/lib/lua/5.0
+LUA_LIBDIR= $(PREFIX)/lib/lua/$(LUA_VERSION)
+
 # Lua includes directory
-LUA_INC= /usr/local/include
+LUA_INC += -I$(PREFIX)/include
+LUA_INC += -I/usr/include/lua$(LUA_VERSION) -I/usr/include/lua/$(LUA_VERSION)
 
 # OS dependent
 LIB_OPTION= -shared #for Linux
 #LIB_OPTION= -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup #for MacOS X
 
-LIBNAME= $T.so.$V
-COMPAT_DIR= ../compat/src
+# Minimum runtime OS version on macOS
+MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET= 10.5
 
 # Compilation directives
-WARN= -O2 -Wall -fPIC -W -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings
-INCS= -I$(LUA_INC) -I$(COMPAT_DIR)
+WARN= -O2 -Wall -fPIC -W -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -pedantic
+INCS= $(LUA_INC)
 CFLAGS= $(WARN) $(INCS)
 CC= gcc
 
-# $Id: config,v 1.14 2005/06/24 01:49:16 tomas Exp $
+# $Id: config,v 1.21 2007/10/27 22:42:32 carregal Exp $

config.win

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+LUA_VERSION= 5.1
+
+# Installation directories
+# System's libraries directory (where binary libraries are installed)
+LUA_LIBDIR= "c:\lua$(LUA_VERSION)"
+
+# Lua includes directory
+LUA_INC= "c:\lua$(LUA_VERSION)\include"
+
+# Lua library
+LUA_LIB= "c:\lua$(LUA_VERSION)\lua$(LUA_VERSION).lib"
+
+# Compilation directives
+WARN= /O2
+INCS= /I$(LUA_INC)
+CFLAGS= /MD $(WARN) $(INCS)
+CC= cl
+
+# $Id: config.win,v 1.7 2008/03/25 17:39:29 mascarenhas Exp $

doc/us/doc.css

@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+body { 
+    color: #47555c;
+    font-size: 16px;
+    font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+    background: #eff4ff;
+}
+
+a:link { color: #008fee; }
+a:visited { color: #008fee; }
+a:hover { color: #22a7ff; }
+
+h1 { font-size:26px; }
+h2 { font-size:24px; }
+h3 { font-size:18px; }
+h4 { font-size:16px; }
+
+hr {
+    height: 1px;
+    background: #c1cce4;
+    border: 0px;
+    margin: 20px 0;
+}
+
+code {
+    font-family: "Open Sans Mono", "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+}
+
+tt {
+    font-family: "Open Sans Mono", "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+}
+
+body, td, th {
+}
+
+textarea, pre, tt {
+    font-family: "Open Sans Mono", "Andale Mono", monospace; 
+}
+
+img {
+    border-width: 0px;
+}
+
+.example {
+    background-color: #323744;
+    color: white;
+    font-size: 16px;
+    padding: 16px 24px;
+    border-radius: 2px;
+}
+
+div.header, div.footer {
+}
+
+#container {
+}
+
+#product {
+    background-color: white;
+    padding: 10px;
+    height: 130px;
+    border-bottom: solid #d3dbec 1px;
+}
+
+#product big {
+    font-size: 42px;
+}
+#product strong {
+    font-weight: normal;
+}
+
+#product_logo {
+    float: right;
+}
+
+#product_name {
+    padding-top: 15px;
+    padding-left: 30px;
+    font-size: 42px;
+    font-weight: normal;
+}
+
+#product_description {
+    padding-left: 30px;
+    color: #757779;
+}
+
+#main {
+    background: #eff4ff;
+    margin: 0;
+}
+
+#navigation {
+    width: 100%;
+    background-color: rgb(44,62,103);
+    padding: 10px;
+    margin: 0;
+}
+
+#navigation h1 {
+    display: none;
+}
+
+#navigation a:hover {
+    text-decoration: underline;
+}
+
+#navigation ul li a {
+    color: rgb(136, 208, 255);
+    font-weight: bold;
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+#navigation ul li li a {
+    color: rgb(136, 208, 255);
+    font-weight: normal;
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+#navigation ul {
+    display: inline;
+    color: white;
+    padding: 0px;
+    padding-top: 10px;
+    padding-bottom: 10px;
+}
+
+#navigation li {
+    display: inline;
+    list-style-type: none;
+    padding-left: 5px;
+    padding-right: 5px;
+}
+
+#navigation li {
+    padding: 10px;
+    padding: 10px;
+}
+
+#navigation li li {
+}
+
+#navigation li:hover a {
+    color: rgb(166, 238, 255);
+}
+
+#content {
+    padding: 20px;
+    width: 800px;
+    margin-left: auto;
+    margin-right: auto;
+}
+
+#about {
+    display: none;
+}
+
+dl.reference {
+    background-color: white;
+    padding: 20px;
+    border: solid #d3dbec 1px;
+}
+
+dl.reference dt {
+    padding: 5px;
+    padding-top: 25px;
+    color: #637bbc;
+}
+
+dl.reference dl dt {
+    padding-top: 5px;
+    color: #637383;
+}
+
+dl.reference dd {
+}
+
+@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

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html>
+<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>
@@ -33,21 +33,21 @@
 				<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>
 			<ul>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+				<li><a href="manual.html#building">Building</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#installation">Installation</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#reference">Reference</a></li>
 			</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>
@@ -64,7 +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
@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ attrdir (".")
 </div> <!-- id="main" -->
 
 <div id="about">
-	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">
-    <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /></a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: examples.html,v 1.5 2006/03/14 14:07:55 carregal Exp $</small></p>
+	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
 </div> <!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div> <!-- id="container" -->

doc/us/index.html

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html>
+<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>
@@ -33,21 +33,21 @@
 				<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>
 			<ul>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+				<li><a href="manual.html#building">Building</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#installation">Installation</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#reference">Reference</a></li>
 			</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>
@@ -66,31 +66,123 @@ 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 5.0.</p>
+<a href="license.html">license</a> as Lua 5.x (MIT).</p>
 
 <h2><a name="status"></a>Status</h2>
 
-<p>Current version is 1.2. It was developed for Lua 5.0.</p>
-
-<p>Version 1.2 follows the
-<a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/compat">package model</a>
-for Lua 5.1 (see section <a href="manual.html#installation">Installation</a>
-for more details).</p>
-
+<p>Current version is 1.8.0. It works with Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4, and it runs on various
+flavors of Unix (including Linux, BSDs, macOS) and Windows.</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> Release 2
-a Windows binary version of LuaFileSystem can also be found at the
-LuaForge page.</p>
+<p>LuaFileSystem can be installed using <a href="https://luarocks.org">LuaRocks</a>:
 
+<pre class="example">
+$ luarocks install luafilesystem
+</pre>
+
+<p>Its source can be found at its <a href="http://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Github</a> page.</p>
 
 <h2><a name="history"></a>History</h2>
 
 <dl class="history">
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.8.0</strong> [22/Apr/2020]</dt>
+    <dd><ul>
+        <li>Lua 5.4 support</li>
+        <li>lfs.link and lfs.symlinkattributes now work on Windows</li>
+        <li>MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is configurable in the Makefile</li>
+        <li>Fallback to _POSIX_PATH_MAX when MAXPATHLEN is not avaliable</li>
+        <li>Fixed memory leak in case of realloc failure</li>
+    </ul></dd>
+
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.7.0</strong> [15/Sep/2017]</dt>
+    <dd><ul>
+        <li>symlinkattributes function now provides 'target' field, containing name of the file that the symlink points to.</li>
+        <li>attributes, symlinkattributes, touch, mkdir, and rmdir functions now return system-dependent error code as the third value on error.</li>
+        <li>Fixed detection of closed files for Lua 5.2+ in setmode, lock, and unlock functions.</li>
+        <li>Fixed various compiler warnings.</li>
+    </ul></dd>
+
+	<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>
+	<li>added function
+	<a href="manual.html#setmode"><code>lfs.setmode</code></a>
+        (works only in Windows systems).</li>
+	<li><a href="manual.html#attributes"><code>lfs.attributes</code></a>
+	raises an error if attribute does not exist</li>
+    </ul>
+    </dd>
+    
+    <dt><strong>Version 1.3.0</strong> [26/Oct/2007]</dt>
+    <dd>
+    <ul>
+        <li>added function
+        <a href="manual.html#symlinkattributes"><code>lfs.symlinkattributes</code></a>
+        (works only in non Windows systems).</li>
+    </ul>
+    </dd>
+
+    <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>Version 1.2</strong> [15/Mar/2006]</dt>
     <dd>
     <ul>
@@ -98,18 +190,18 @@ LuaForge page.</p>
         <a href="manual.html#attributes"><code>lfs.attributes</code></a></li>
         <li>added function
         <a href="manual.html#rmdir"><code>lfs.rmdir</code></a></li>
-        <li>bug correction on <code>lfs.dir</code></li>
+        <li>bug correction on <a href="manual.html#dir"><code>lfs.dir</code></a></li>
     </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 <code>lfs.touch</code>.</li>
+        <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>
@@ -120,26 +212,15 @@ LuaForge page.</p>
 
 <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" -->
 
 </div> <!-- id="main" -->
 
 <div id="about">
-	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">
-    <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /></a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: index.html,v 1.30 2006/03/15 16:44:04 carregal Exp $</small></p>
+	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
 </div> <!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div> <!-- id="container" -->

doc/us/license.html

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html>
+<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>
@@ -33,21 +33,21 @@
 				<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>
 			<ul>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+				<li><a href="manual.html#building">Building</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#installation">Installation</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#reference">Reference</a></li>
 			</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>
@@ -68,7 +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>
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Ierusalimschy, Andr&eacute; Carregal and Tom&aacute;s Guisasola.
 The implementation is not derived from licensed software.</p>
 
 <hr/>
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2004-2006 The Kepler Project.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2003 - 2020 Kepler Project.</p>
 
 <p>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
 obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
@@ -111,9 +111,7 @@ SOFTWARE.</p>
 </div> <!-- id="main" -->
 
 <div id="about">
-	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">
-    <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /></a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: license.html,v 1.9 2006/03/14 14:07:55 carregal Exp $</small></p>
+	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
 </div><!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div><!-- id="container" -->

doc/us/manual.html

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html>
+<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>
@@ -31,21 +33,21 @@
 				<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>
 			<ul>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
+				<li><a href="manual.html#building">Building</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#installation">Installation</a></li>
 				<li><a href="manual.html#reference">Reference</a></li>
 			</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>
@@ -63,20 +65,35 @@ systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.</p>
 <p>LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access
 the underlying directory structure and file attributes.</p>
 
+<h2><a name="building"></a>Building</h2>
+
+<p>
+LuaFileSystem should be built with Lua 5.1 so the language library
+and header files for the target version must be installed properly.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+LuaFileSystem offers a Makefile and a separate configuration file,
+<code>config</code>,
+which should be edited to suit your installation before running
+<code>make</code>.
+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>LuaFileSystem follows the
-<a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/compat/">package model</a>
-for Lua 5.1, therefore it should be "installed". Refer to
-<a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/compat/manual.html#configuration">
-Compat-5.1 configuration</a> section about how to install the compiled
-binary properly.
-The compiled binary should be copied to a directory in your
-<code>LUA_CPATH</code>.</p>
+<p>The easiest way to install LuaFileSystem is to use LuaRocks:</p>
 
-<p>Windows users can use the binary version of LuaFileSystem
-(<code>lfs.dll</code>) available at
-<a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luafilesystem/files">LuaForge</a>.</p>
+<pre class="example">
+luarocks install luafilesystem
+</pre>
+
+<p>If you prefer to install LuaFileSystem manually, the compiled binary should be copied to a directory in your
+<a href="http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-package.cpath">C path</a>.</p>
 
 <h2><a name="reference"></a>Reference</h2>
 
@@ -85,16 +102,19 @@ 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 [, request_name | result_table])</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
+    <code>filepath</code> (or <code>nil</code> followed by an error message and a system-dependent error code
     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)[request_name]</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 (<code>result_table</code>) 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: 
+    attribute <code>mode</code> is a string, all the others are numbers,
+    and the time related attributes use the same time reference of
+    <a href="http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-os.time"><code>os.time</code></a>: 
         <dl>
         <dt><strong><code>dev</code></strong></dt>
         <dd>on Unix systems, this represents the device that the inode resides on. On Windows systems,
@@ -134,12 +154,21 @@ 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>
         
         <dt><strong><code>blksize</code></strong></dt>
 		<dd>optimal file system I/O blocksize; (Unix only)</dd>
 	    </dl>
+    This function uses <code>stat</code> internally thus if the given
+    <code>filepath</code> is a symbolic link, it is followed (if it points to
+    another link the chain is followed recursively) and the information
+    is about the file it refers to.
+    To obtain information about the link itself, see function
+    <a href="#symlinkattributes">lfs.symlinkattributes</a>.
 	</dd>
 
     <dt><a name="chdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.chdir (path)</code></strong></dt>
@@ -147,16 +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="lock_dir"></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>
+    <dt><a name="currentdir"></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 string with an entry of the
-    directory; <code>nil</code> is returned when there is 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>
     
@@ -171,30 +211,54 @@ 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
     directory.<br />
-    Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful;
-    in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.
+    Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code>, an error message and
+    a system-dependent error code in case of error.
     </dd>
     
     <dt><a name="rmdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.rmdir (dirname)</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Removes an existing directory. The argument is the name of the directory.<br />
-    Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful;
-    in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.</dd>
+    Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code>, an error message and
+    a system-dependent error code in case of error.
+
+    <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 <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 [, request_name])</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).
+    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>
     <dd>Set access and modification times of a file. This function is
     a bind to <code>utime</code> function. The first argument is the
     filename, the second argument (<code>atime</code>) is the access time,
     and the third argument (<code>mtime</code>) is the modification time.
     Both times are provided in seconds (which should be generated with
-    Lua standard function <code>os.date</code>).
+    Lua standard function <code>os.time</code>).
     If the modification time is omitted, the access time provided is used;
     if both times are omitted, the current time is used.<br />
-    Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful;
-    in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.
+    Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code>, an error message and
+    a system-dependent error code in case of error.
     </dd>
     
     <dt><a name="unlock"></a><strong><code>lfs.unlock (filehandle[, start[, length]])</code></strong></dt>
@@ -213,9 +277,7 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
 </div> <!-- id="main" -->
 
 <div id="about">
-	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">
-    <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /></a></p>
-	<p><small>$Id: manual.html,v 1.30 2006/03/15 16:44:04 carregal Exp $</small></p>
+	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
 </div> <!-- id="about" -->
 
 </div> <!-- id="container" -->

luafilesystem-scm-1.rockspec

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package = "luafilesystem"
+version = "scm-1"
+source = {
+   url = "git://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem"
+}
+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"
+   }
+}

src/.gitignore

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

src/lfs.def

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+LIBRARY lfs.dll
+VERSION 1.8
+EXPORTS
+luaopen_lfs

src/lfs.h

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 /*
 ** LuaFileSystem
-** Copyright Kepler Project 2004-2006 (http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem)
-**
-** $Id: lfs.h,v 1.3 2006/03/10 23:37:32 carregal Exp $
+** Copyright Kepler Project 2003 - 2020
+** (http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem)
 */
 
 /* Define 'chdir' for systems that do not implement it */
@@ -13,4 +12,24 @@
 #define chdir_error	strerror(errno)
 #endif
 
-int luaopen_lfs (lua_State *L);
+#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
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+  LFS_EXPORT int luaopen_lfs(lua_State * L);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif

tests/test.lua

@@ -1,27 +1,33 @@
-#!/usr/local/bin/lua50
+#!/usr/bin/env lua5.1
 
 local tmp = "/tmp"
-local sep = "/"
+local sep = string.match (package.config, "[^\n]+")
 local upper = ".."
 
-require"lfs"
+local is_unix = package.config:sub(1,1) == "/"
+
+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
@@ -32,49 +38,202 @@ 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 = tmp..sep.."lfs_tmp_dir"
+local tmpdir = current..sep.."lfs_tmp_dir"
 local tmpfile = tmpdir..sep.."tmp_file"
+-- Test for existence of a previous lfs_tmp_dir
+-- 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 (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")
+local data = "hello, file!"
+f:write(data)
 f:close()
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Change access time
-assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, 86401))
+local testdate = os.time({ year = 2007, day = 10, month = 2, hour=0})
+assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, testdate))
 local new_att = assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile))
-assert (new_att.access == 86401, "could not set access time")
-assert (new_att.modification == 86401, "could not set modification time")
+assert (new_att.access == testdate, "could not set access time")
+assert (new_att.modification == testdate, "could not set modification time")
+
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
+-- High-precision attributes
+local testdate_hi = os.time({ year = 2021, day = 1, month = 23, hour=0}) + 0.5555
+assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, testdate_hi))
+local new_att_hi = assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile))
+if new_att_hi.modification ~= testdate_hi then
+    io.write("\n")
+    io.write("warning: no support for high-precision timestamps\n")
+    io.flush()
+end
+
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
 
 -- Change access and modification time
-assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, 86403, 86402))
+local testdate1 = os.time({ year = 2007, day = 10, month = 2, hour=0})
+local testdate2 = os.time({ year = 2007, day = 11, month = 2, hour=0})
+
+assert (lfs.touch (tmpfile, testdate2, testdate1))
 local new_att = assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile))
-assert (new_att.access == 86403, "could not set access time")
-assert (new_att.modification == 86402, "could not set modification time")
+assert (new_att.access == testdate2, "could not set access time")
+assert (new_att.modification == testdate1, "could not set modification time")
+
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
+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.symlinkattributes(tmpfile).mode == "file")
+  
+  assert (lfs.link (tmpfile, "_a_hard_link_for_test_"))
+  assert (lfs.symlinkattributes"_a_hard_link_for_test_".mode == "file")
+  
+  local fd = io.open(tmpfile)
+  assert(fd:read("*a") == data)
+  fd:close()
+
+  fd = io.open("_a_link_for_test_")
+  assert(fd:read("*a") == data)
+  fd:close()
+
+  fd = io.open("_a_hard_link_for_test_")
+  assert(fd:read("*a") == data)
+  fd:close()
+
+  fd = io.open("_a_hard_link_for_test_", "w+")
+  local data2 = "write in hard link"
+  fd:write(data2)
+  fd:close()
+
+  fd = io.open(tmpfile)
+  assert(fd:read("*a") == data2)
+  fd:close()
+
+  if is_unix then
+    assert (lfs.attributes (tmpfile, "nlink") == 2)
+  end
+
+  assert (os.remove"_a_link_for_test_")
+  assert (os.remove"_a_hard_link_for_test_")
+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))
+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)
+assert (new_att.access - attrib.access < 1)
+assert (new_att.modification - attrib.modification < 1)
+
+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
+
+-- Check that lfs.attributes accepts a table as second argument
+local attr2 = {}
+lfs.attributes(tmpfile, attr2)
+for key, value in pairs(attr2) do
+  assert (value == lfs.attributes (tmpfile, key),
+          "lfs.attributes values with table argument not consistent")
+end
+
+-- Check that extra arguments are ignored
+lfs.attributes(tmpfile, attr2, nil)
 
 -- 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")
+local attr_ok, err, errno = lfs.attributes("this couldn't be an actual file")
+assert(attr_ok == nil, "could get attributes of a non-existent file")
+assert(type(err) == "string", "failed lfs.attributes did not return an error message")
+assert(type(errno) == "number", "failed lfs.attributes did not return error code")
 assert (type(lfs.attributes (upper)) == "table", "couldn't get attributes of upper directory")
 
+io.write(".")
+io.flush()
+
 -- Stressing directory iterator
+local count = 0
+for i = 1, 4000 do
+        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
-	for file in lfs.dir (tmp) do
-		count = count + 1
-	end
+  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!"