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Terminate background parallels

Started by LNETeam, 21 September 2014 - 03:50 PM

LNETeam #1

103 posts

Location Eclipse

Posted 21 September 2014 - 05:50 PM

Quick question.

Lets say I do this:


local ops = {function() shell.run("shell") end, mon (this is a internal function)}
parallel.waitForAny(unpack(ops))

So in theory I have a background process. Now, from another program, I wanted to terminate the 'mon' process, is that possible?


> some_program --kill

This terminates the mon 'thread'.

KingofGamesYami #2

3057 posts

Location United States of America

Posted 21 September 2014 - 06:13 PM

You could communicate through os.queueEvent and os.pullEvent.


--#bla bla bla stuff

--#now we want to kill it
os.queueEvent( "kill_mon" )

And in mon:


local event = { os.pullEvent() }
if event[ 1 ] == "kill_mon" then
  return
end

Also, if you want to kill only one, you would have to use parallel.waitForAll.

LNETeam #3

103 posts

Location Eclipse

Posted 21 September 2014 - 06:23 PM

~~Thanks it works~~

~~Wait. From a different program?~~
Just kidding, had to do some fiddling

Edited on 21 September 2014 - 04:45 PM