Re: merging lua files

[Valerio Schiavoni <valerio.schiavoni@...>]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Jim Jennings
<jennings.durham.nc+lua@gmail.com> wrote:

> In general, re-using the same vm to run independent 'jobs' can expose
> you to a surprising number of ways in which one piece of Lua code can
> interfere with another.  This is due to Lua's greatest strength (imo)
> which is that it allows you to modify how it works (metatables,
> environments are tables, get/setfenv, loadstring, package.*, etc.).
> If you must re-use the same vm for many jobs, you should consider
> locking down the Lua environment in which each job runs, in order to
> create a predictable final state when one job finishes and you are
> ready to start another.

It is already the case. Each job runs in its own isolated sandboxed environment.


> system to provide this.  See http://lua-users.org/wiki/JimJennings for
> information and source code (pure Lua) for the Darwin module system.

I will look at this.

And thanks for the detailed explanation.

Valerio