interrupting coroutines (was Re: Local Variables)

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Thiago L." <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/08/14 02:34 PM, Jay Carlson wrote:

>> Why do people like MediaWiki disable coroutines, anyway?
>
> Because you can't interrupt running coroutines?
>
> coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function() while true do end end)) -- good luck interrupting me

OK, that's a good reason. (OTOH, if you were going to tear down the runtime in response to an interrupt I'm not sure it matters.)

You can navigate from a lua_State to its global state, but you can't navigate from the global state to the current thread. I'm not certain what "current thread" really means anyway.

Jay