Re: lua.c and OS error codes

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Thomas Lauer wrote:

> A 'return 1453' in a Lua main chunk doesn't set the error code that's
> handed back to the OS. It would be nice if utility scripts could set
> this value.

I wrote some very similar code for my specialized lua wrapper yesterday,
so I agree that it's useful :-) I'd suggest amending your patch to set
s.errcode to EXIT_FAILURE if the (lua error) status is non-zero.

Tony.
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