Re: Launching and controlling multiple lua scripts from Lua

[Jorge <xxopxe@...>]

On 01/30/2014 05:15 PM, Milind Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
>          I would like to launch multiple lua scripts, communicate with
> them and pause or terminate them from within lua. Also I would want this
> to be platform independent as much as possible.
>          I looked at multithreading libraries here
> <http://lua-users.org/wiki/MultiTasking>. All need some OS support so I
> am not sure if it will work even in systems like Android.

If you are okay with cooperative multitasking, a pure-Lua multitasking 
environment is Lumen:

https://github.com/xopxe/Lumen

It allows to start/pause/kill tasks, and communicate with them using 
signals (trough an API inspired in Mihini scheduler). You also have 
pipes and streams for inter-task communications, and a few goodies like 
a toy webserver (with websocket support), a remote Lua terminal, etc.

I made it and that all I can say as it's advantages/disadvantages :)

Jorge