RE: Timing out LUA programs

[Nick Trout <Nick.Trout@...>]

> I am thinking of "embedding" LUA into my program,but I am concerned
> about users writing "never ending" LUA programs.
> 
> Is there a safe way to shut down the LUA program after an arbitrary
> time interval?

The same way you would in C. You can run for a set time then exit the Lua
state back to C and lua_close() or you could just call exit() in your code
depending on how you wanted to close down.

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