Re: finalizer not called for userdata created inside finalizer

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I see.  In that case, using finalizers to implement a Lua-level
> atexit() doesn't seem like a viable technique.
> 
> https://github.com/dcurrie/lunit/blob/master/atexit.lua

It does, as long as you use 'atexit' for typical 'atexit' uses, such as
cleaning up stuff. It really does not work if you want to run most of
your program inside an 'atexit'.

-- Roberto