Re: Detecting if function is running.

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 13:47, Florian Berger wrote:
> Is there a way to detect if a Lua function is already running? Currently
> I'm using global variables to determine if some function is already
> running but it's not very convenient.

If you're not using coroutines then you could use the debugging
reflection library to check backwards up the debug stack to see if a
function has an activation record on the stack.

If you're using coroutines, you're probably stuffed.

D.

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