Re: Controlling lua features

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Lloyd <lloyd@cdactvm.in> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>  Lets think that we want to embed lua to a windows service (daemon) like
> application. At the service startup, it executes the used given lua script.
> If the user supplies an "infinite useless empty loop" rest of the service
> will never be executed!! Is there any mechanism in lua to stop this kind of
> behavior? I mean, can I exclude loop kind of lua features, by making some
> settings in my lua configuration or someware?

A simple google search yields answers to your question:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lua+execution+time+control

Such as:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/NonBlockingLuaExecution

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