bug: garbage not collected (redux)

[Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@...>]

The following bug

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-09/msg00454.html

was reported back in 2012.

It is not listed at https://www.lua.org/bugs.html but it is still present in latest Lua versions.

Are there any plans to fix it? Is there a good reason for not fixing it? As explained in the original thread, any system that allows users to write custom Lua scripts that get triggered by some events is susceptible to this problem. That's how a colleague of mine rediscovered it.

Cheers,

V.