RE: Intercepting coroutine.create

["Dave Nichols" <dave.nichols@...>]

I've done exactly that. Its a generic pure Lua solution. Its attached. Do
with it what you will.


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-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br]On Behalf Of Stefan
Brantschen
Sent: 07 September 2006 14:18
To: Lua list
Subject: Intercepting coroutine.create


I am writing a debugger that is coroutine-savvy, ie. I also want to
able to inspect any coroutines created by the debugged program from
the debugger. For this, I need to hook a corresponding debug routine
into each coroutine (via debug.sethook()), and I am doing this by
intercepting coroutine.create().

I am fairly new to Lua and would like to ask if my approach is OK
from the expert's POV. Note that I only want to use Lua, not C.

This is the relevant code snippet of the debugger that I came up with:

local new_coroutine = {}
setmetatable(new_coroutine, new_coroutine)
new_coroutine.__index = coroutine

function new_coroutine.create (...)
   local cr = new_coroutine.__index.create(...)
   -- 'probe.hook' is the debugger's "hook" routine
   debug.sethook(cr, probe.hook, "clr")
   return cr
end

local new_G = {}
setmetatable(new_G, {__index = _G})
new_G.coroutine = new_coroutine

-- 'file' contains the debugged program
local mf, err = loadfile(file)
-- error handling omitted here
setfenv(mf, new_G)
local mfc = new_coroutine.create(mf)
local result = {coroutine.resume(mfc)}


Is this a suitable approach? Anything that could be improved?

Thanks and regards
- Stefan

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