Re: scripts launching other scripts (coroutines)

["Thomas Blom" <thomasblom@...>]

How is the thread known to be collectable?  In my case there are no lua  
references to the thread, which is created from the C call lua_newthread.   
This call takes the "master" lua state which it inherits the global  
environment from.  So is the thread not available for collection until  
this "master" lua state (which was obtained via lua_open, otherwise known  
as luaL_newstate).

Thanks for the response; I'm interested in the various archives, but  
presently crashing deep inside lua when calling resume on a new thread  
(after having stopped & started others a number of times as in my  
example), so any pointers appreciated.

-thomas



> Thomas Blom wrote:
>
> > the Capi_killScript just deletes the C object - it doesn't
> > free the thread in any way (there is no way to free the
> > thread created with lua_newthread).
>
> Threads are subject to garbage collection and do not need to
> be manually freed.
>
> > But luaFn2 will never finish - is this OK?
>
> Yes.  It's no problem if a coroutine is not dead (see
> coroutine.status) when it is collected.



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