[TUT] Disable the infinite loop protection

There is a protection in Lua that prevent infinite loops from blocking the server forever.

Sometimes (when testing things) you may need a huge loop that you know will not be infinite, but unfortunately it could still trigger that protection, so here is how to disable it temporarily:

  
local h1, h2, h3 = debug.gethook() 
debug.sethook() 
  
-- Your loop here 
  
debug.sethook( _, h1, h2, h3 ) 
  

I hope it will be useful for someone else

Instead of explaining its surface and giving us the code, could you explain us what happens in the code.

Not much to explain, it just store the hook state prior to disabling it, and restore it when the loop completed. I can't explain more because I don't know to be honest

A more sensible approach would be to make use of timers. Set a very frequent timer and execute the loop in portions. Your method will simply stall the server and all players will eventually time out.

A more sensible approach would be to make use of timers. Set a very frequent timer and execute the loop in portions. Your method will simply stall the server and all players will eventually time out.

It depends on the use, I just used it to import +2000000 mysql rows to a sqlite database.

Thanks to OP