Re: silent hang - can anyone explain?

["David Collier" <myshkin@...>]

> *From:* "Rena" <hyperhacker@gmail.com>
> *To:* <myshkin@cix.co.uk>, "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> *Date:* Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:09:05 -0500
> 
> On 2012-10-16 12:52 PM, "David Collier" <myshkin@cix.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ok - so I gather the silent hang isn't "quite expected" for some 
> > subtle
> > reason I haven't twigged.
> >
> > > I'll make a guess that you're using Lua inside an application 
> > that
> > > is
> > > using [lua_]pcall() without appropriate error handling in place 
> > to
> > > report the error to you.
> >
> > not knowingly - and I get other error messages just fine
> >
> > > Another possibility is that the error
> > > happened inside a coroutine, you need to check the return value 
> > from
> > > coroutine.resume() in this case.
> >
> > Well I'm not intentionally invoking coroutines. Simple 
> > single-thread bit
> > of equipment test s/w running on windoze.
> >
> > Thanks - will cut bits out of my prog till it says something :-)
> >
> > David
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Matthew
> > >
> >
> 
> By some coincidence, is payLoad:subs() an actual existing function 
> that
> loops for a long time? (Maybe payLoad is not the type you expect?) 
> Wouldn't
> be the first time I've seen such an unlikely-seeming scenario on 
> this list.

no - payload is a string and everything works fine if I kill the 's'




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