Re: Killing arbitrary coroutines

[Andre Leiradella <andre@...>]

On 19/01/2012 15:20, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> ----- 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 
This does exactly what I want, but I want to use stock Lua. Thanks though.
> At the time, it worked for me, but I never ended up using it in 
> production.  YMMV.
>
> -Josh