From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: LuaTeX: Weird GC behaviour
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:52:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531d9859-6ef6-fc7c-2a77-979abdcf1542@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACB5GbOJPXmcZxVKZ=N1PvX8rjEUhWBbOoCfdLhBTurR9A8MSg@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/7/2017 12:40 AM, Shreevatsa R wrote:
> (Hope this gets threaded with the previous two messages...)
>
> I was the one who asked the question
> (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/404617). Another thing I'd
> like to mention is that after a while `io.lines` simply returned nil,
> and the second and third return values (error message and error code)
> that io.lines is supposed to return in case of error were also nil.
> Even if this issue is not perfectly fixed (i.e. even if io.lines
> cannot be made to close the file descriptor when it reaches the end of
> file), I think it would be preferable to throw a clear error when
> there's a failure to open a new file, instead of silently (and in a
> not 100% reproducible way) returning nil.
Ok, we can quit with an error but the message will be a bit different
(as we have different code). The file gets now closed explicitly which
doesn't guarantee collection but it looks ok so far. I never use
io.lines so I can't really test in practice.
Hans
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2017-12-06 23:40 Shreevatsa R
2017-12-07 10:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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2017-12-05 21:47 Henri
2017-12-05 22:32 ` Hans Hagen
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