Re: Stack Overflow if Library is named taboo.so

[Owen Shepherd <owen.shepherd@...>]

Leo Razoumov wrote:
> Isn't  require supposed to set  package.loaded[modname]  to some true
> value*before*  it executes the module chunk to prevent a possibility
> of an infinite recursion? If it is not the case and require can cause
> an infinite recursion then it is a bug in Lua module system.
> Requiring modules can produce cycles  (directly or indirectly) and a
> package loader should be prepared to handle this possibility.


There is no appropriate value for package.loaded to be set to until the package code has finished executing. If require set it to some placeholder value, it would just cause errors in other portions of the application.