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+# LEMU
+
+This is a (work-in-progress) text-based multi-user server engine, utilizing lua, libevent, and a concurrent work queue.
+The intent is for client interaction to be primarily driven by lua scripting, with the server code itself only handling the heavy-lifting of IO, DB, et cetera.
+
+Nota bene: this is currently a toy implementation, as an architecture for the lua-side has yet to be fleshed out, and is being developed by feel, trial, and error.
+
+## Overview
+
+The main thread runs the event loop, which primarily accepts new connections and feeds their line-based inputs into the thread pool for processing. Connection hostname resolution and signal handling are also in the main thread.
+
+Each connection has its own queue of input. When a new line of input is added to a connection's queue and there were no other lines already queued, a new job is added to the workqueue to process that connection's input.
+
+The main unresolved issue here is consistent server state-keeping between each worker-thread's lua processor. The current stopgap solution is that each worker is totally independent and any global changes to the lua state will be queued as a task to update the common state. The imagined ideal is a lock-enable native lua environment/table which would be shared by all workers.
+
+## File Tour
+
+ bsd_queue.h - BSD's sys/queue.h, included here because Linux's version is dreadful
+ command.c - processes user input
+ common.c - utility functions
+ connections.c - manage and interact with active clients
+ db.c - persistent data storage
+ lua_interface.c - lua bindings to server and connections
+ main.c - cli
+ notify.c - logging abstraction
+ server.c - event loop, network stuff, glues everything together
+ workqueue.c - concurrent task runner
+
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