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What? An FFI implementation of the Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OSX
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kernel ABIs for LuaJIT. This means you will be able to program all
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the functionality the Unix kernel provides to userspace directly
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in Lua. You can view it as a high level language equivalent of the
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Busybox project in a way, although the functionality it provides
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is somewhat different, and the interface very different.
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Why? First it provides a comprehensive set of system call APIs for
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programming sockets, files and so on, including the more obscure
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things (eg file change notifications). Second it provides higher
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level interfaces such as network interface configuration, so your
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application can control its entire runtime interface including IP
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addresses routing and so on. Third it provides tools for added
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security, such as support for Linux namespaces (containers), system
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call filtering (seccomp type 2), capabilities and so on, all with
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a script language interface that is much simpler to use than the
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C interface. As it is Lua based it can easily be embedded in another
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language; in the future ports to other scripting languages are
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planned. It also serves as a way of learning how the operating
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system interfaces work in a more forgiving environment than C.
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