[solved] lua socket - udp protocol

[Joe Black]

I am programming a server receiving message from many clients

I was wondering how the udp message received are stored.
In the tutorial : networking with udp, the server loop is

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data = udp:receivefrom()
if data then
   ...
end
socket.sleep(0.01)

while timeout is set to 0

so message are handled everytime or every 0.01 s

In my code I want to pull all messages every 0.1 second or less
and at this rate many message can have been received between 2 pull
but messages aren't stored in a stack, isn't it ?
If there is no stack, the best implementation seem to be a thread that store them in a stack ?
if there is a stack can I do

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data,_,_=udp:receivefrom()
while data do
   data=udp:receivefrom()
end

?

thanks for your help

[Joe Black]

Ok sorry guys, with little more research I finally got my answer

the client code of the tutorial say explicitly what I wanted to know :

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-- there could well be more than one message waiting for us, so we'll
-- loop unbtil we run out
repeat
   data, msg= udp:receive()
until not data