Re: interrupting coroutines (was Re: Local Variables)

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Jay Carlson once stated:
> 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.

  Um ... lua_pushthread()?  

  And by "current thread" read "currently running Lua coroutine".

  -spc