BUG/MINOR: lua funtion hlua_socket_settimeout don't check negative values
Negatives timeouts doesn't have sense. A negative timeout doesn't cause
a crash, but the connection expires before the system try to extablish it.
This patch should be backported in all versions from 1.6
diff --git a/src/hlua.c b/src/hlua.c
index 3b87aa9..1541468 100644
--- a/src/hlua.c
+++ b/src/hlua.c
@@ -2474,6 +2474,10 @@
socket = MAY_LJMP(hlua_checksocket(L, 1));
tmout = MAY_LJMP(luaL_checkinteger(L, 2)) * 1000;
+ /* Check for negative values */
+ if (tmout < 0)
+ WILL_LJMP(luaL_error(L, "settimeout: cannot set negatives values"));
+
/* Check if we run on the same thread than the xreator thread.
* We cannot access to the socket if the thread is different.
*/