Re: Preventing DOS when executing Lua code ...

[Lisa Parratt <lisa@...>]

Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to avoid a potential denial of service situation with the 
> execution of Lua code where a user can enter code that takes a long time 
> to run, thereby hanging the interpreter. Proving to be more difficult 
> than it seems.

Run the interpreter in it's own thread, and simply kill the thread if it 
takes too long?

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Lisa