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> Is it guaranteed by Lua that all __gc's are called when a script
> exit-returns? Or is just a random trait of the current implementation?

No. It is not even a random trait: when you call os.exit Lua will not
execute any __gc. (Lua 5.2 supports an extra argument to os.exit
that will force a proper close of the Lua state before exiting.)

-- Roberto