Re: hook question

[Andreas Stenius <kaos@...>]

David Burgess skrev:
[...]
> Restating my problem :
> I am executing user code in Lua threads and I seek a low
> overhead means  of terminating user tasks that exceed
> a predefined time limit.

I have an app running in a multithreaded environment (but each thread
has its own lua instance, communicating through a database) and use 
sleep and usleep quite a bit to wait for other tasks to complete their 
work. So I put in a timeout check in the exposed function.

This won't do though, if you need to abort a script running wild with no 
calls to such a function.