Re: Using debugging hooks as a 'watchdog' on code execution?

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly@...>]

My IRC bot that would run code for people taught me a lot about
sandboxing Lua, as well as the lengths people will go to to break bots
:P

You will inevitably run into problems everywhere unless you thread it
(LuaTask is a good choice). Simple things like table.concat or
string.find can eat cpu cycles indefinitely if they are smart.
Naturally debug library doesn't help you much if everything happens on
the C side of Lua.

HTH,


-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant