Re: Handling asynchronous interrupts in a command-line interpreter.

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> One issue with this is that the control-C can come along at *any* time.

The stand-alone interpreter lua.c has similar problems. What we do is that
the singal handler only sets a (debug) hook; when the hook is called, then
it produces an error that stops execution. There is one problem with that:
the virtual machine does not change its line hook in the middle of a function,
so you have to rely on the call hook: If your piece of code does no calls,
it will not stop.

-- Roberto