Re: Killing arbitrary coroutines

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: andre@leiradella.com
Date: 1/18/2012 7:04 AM
> Hi All,
>
> I've implemented a scheduler that reuses coroutines. Pretty standard stuff: spawn a new coroutine, yield, sleeping for some time, stop, wait for events.
>
> Stop causes the current coroutine to abort and return itself to the pool of available coroutines, but I need to implement something to kill any arbitrary coroutine.
>
> Is there a way to throw an error in another Lua thread?
Perhaps this patch may help you:

https://github.com/jjensen/luaplus51-all/commit/663f15dc02bf3d6e7678612fca834d2c4f4f3bfd

At the time, it worked for me, but I never ended up using it in 
production.  YMMV.

-Josh