#5 Terminate Lua Thread without Terminating JVM

[collinjsimpson]

Is it possible to introduce an alternative to os.exit() that terminates the calling Lua thread but not the JVM? There is currently no way of interrupting a running Lua script without terminating the JVM; something which is rather inconvenient.

Quick demonstration:

// badscript.lua contains "while true do end"
Thread t = new Thread() {
    public void run() {
        JsePlatform.standardGlobals().loadFile("badscript.lua").call();
    }
};
t.start();
t.stop(); // does not interrupt the Lua script

[collinjsimpson]

If this can't be patched, can anyone recommend an alternative?