Re: How to timeout a running function??

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Leo Razoumov wrote:
> On the other hand I do not see how setting count hook would help to
> time-out a Lua function. According to Lua manual count hook cannot
> count time. It counts instructions, lines of code, function
> invocations/returns. How would  count hook help me if my foo()
> functions is blocking inside?

Well, it is the classical answer to handle infinite loops in user 
script, another frequent source of hang ups.
I suppose you have to do your check on the C side, then.

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