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- Subject: Re: A garbage collector question
- From: Rena <hyperhacker@...>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:12:32 -0400
On 2012-10-08 9:26 AM, "Roberto Ierusalimschy" <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> > For __gc to run the Lua state must be closed as mentioned with the 5.2
> > os.exit(). What isn't mentioned is what Lua state is being closed,
> > but I would assume only the current state. Some clarification in the
> > manual would be nice.
>
> >From Lua you cannot see more than one Lua state. The entire world is
> one Lua state. So, that state is the one that os.exit closes. There is
> no other.
>
> -- Roberto
>
That seems to conflict with the statement that it calls exit and terminates the host program. How do other states survive that?
