A couple of questions

[Theodor-Iulian Ciobanu <tciobanu@...>]

Hello Lua,

I could use a few pointers concerning the following:

1) How to obtain the name of a pre-compiled running script?
My first thought was debug.getinfo(1,'S').source, but it returns nil.

2)  How  can  I  make  a  script  auto-load  itself  (when  it notices
differences  between  itself  and  the  one  on  disk, for example)? I
was thinking of doing something like this:

local modtime=lfs.attributes(fname,'modification')
local fname=debug.getinfo(1,'S').source
if (lfs.attributes(fname,'modification')~=modtime) then
  return dofile(fname)
end

But  I doubt this solution is stack friendly. This check would be part
of an almost infinite loop that would look like this:

repeat
  BeUseful()
  Sleep()
  Update() -- this would be the previous code
until (noloop)

Any idea will be appreciated.

-- 
Theodor-Iulian Ciobanu
jr Virus Researcher

e-mail: tciobanu@bitdefender.com

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