RE: controlled exit

["Thijs Schreijer" <thijs@...>]

Thx! For the quick responses, but I'm really a c noob, wouldn't even known
how to get it compiled (and as I'm in for lua-only platform independence I'm
even making an effort to stay away from it). If there is no alternative then
I suppose I have to, but isn't there a lua-only way of doing this?

I've done a lot of Girder stuff (which uses lua), it has a simple flag
'girder.isexiting' to check whether we're on the way out.

Feels like a question of asking but already knowing... and still hoping,
anyone gonna make my day?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org]
> On Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
> Sent: donderdag 29 september 2011 19:49
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: controlled exit
> 
> > Signals perhaps? E.g. SIGTERM
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-07/msg00198.html
> 
> See also lua.c which catches SIGINT. The same technique can be used to
> catch SIGTERM though you'll probably want to return a special error
> object to signal termination.