Re: Is having lua_State per thread safe?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> > - Different lua_States created with calls to lua_newstate (or
> > luaL_newsate) do not share any mutable data.
> >
> 
> However, some functions from the C runtime do share mutable data. For
> instance, gmtime.

Yes :-(  (Well, for this particular case Lua 5.2 uses gmtime_r when
possible. But some other C functions still have problems.)

-- Roberto