Re: Exit one Lua state from a (C) API function

[Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@...>]

Yes, your argument is valid
In our case it works as the coroutines run only for a short period 
before they return control to main thread.


Oliver

Am 03.03.21 um 10:22 schrieb Viacheslav Usov:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:12 PM Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@nec-i.de> wrote:
>
> >      lua_State *mainthread = G(L)->mainthread;
> >      lua_sethook( mainthread, fullstop, LUA_MASKCALL | LUA_MASKRET | LUA_MASKCOUNT, 1 );
> Does this really work? Hooks are per-coroutine, so if a coroutine
> happens to be running when the above executes, I believe it won't have
> any effect till the main thread resumes, which may never happen.
>
> When solving this problem (in a proprietary project, so, sorry, no
> code) we ended up having to track coroutines and hook all of them.
>
> Note to the original poster: this still does not solve the lua_pcall()
> problem. So this is more of a suggestion that the Lua state should
> terminate rather than a sure fire termination (for other reasons,
> too).
>
> Cheers,
> V.