Re: A garbage collector question

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Clearly, they don't. They get abruptly terminated, with no final gc sweep run.

/s/ Adam