Re: abort a lua_newthread from C and re-use its lua_State?

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

Another suggestion is to keep a table with week keys in the coroutines
parent state and have userdata with a custom __gc as the values.  When
the coroutines get collected, so will the userdata.

wes

On 5/12/07, Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> Graham Wakefield wrote:
> >
> > This won't work.  The registry is shared between the main state and all
> > child states created within it.
>
> You're right. I wrongly assumed that each coroutine had its
> own registry. Thanks for pointing that out!
>
> Then, Rici's advice is probably the best.
>
> There is (at least) one more way to achieve that goal: create
> a userdata with a __gc method and put it on the coroutine's
> stack (say, as the 1-st parameter to the coroutine's main function).
> (Tested today, and seems to work).
>
> --
> Shmuel