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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available
- From: Drake Wilson <drake@...>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:55:10 -0700
Quoth Drake Wilson <drake@dasyatidae.net>, on 2011-06-15 11:34:33 -0700:
> It may be advisable to have an os.exit variant that is guaranteed to
> not close the state; _exit in C exists for a reason. (Mainly, forked
> processes that need to exit without prematurely doing a cleanup that
> will otherwise be done in the parent.) I'm not sure how common this
> is in Lua.
Oh, wait, hmm, that should probably just be left to luaposix et al.
Never mind. (I need more water. 41 °C today...)
---> Drake Wilson
