Hello!
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:08 PM, kikito wrote:
>> The ngx_lua module has not yet provided a built-in mechanism for
>> automatically aborting such infinite loop with a timeout or some other
>> threshold.
>
> Is there any other option? Maybe outside Lua? Does raw nginx provide a
> "script timeout" facility that I might have missed?
>
Nope.
> If the timeout is reached, I just really want to return 500 and an error
> message - I don't care if it's openresty or nginx who delivers it.
>
Yes, that's also what I was thinking about.
> I am afraid that falls totally out of my area of expertise. If I did a patch
> for that I would probably do more bad than good.
>
> But I will keep speaking about it on my talks. (So far your project has
> appeared in the last two). That's all I can do to contribute to the project
> for now, I am afraid.
>
Thank you all the same :)
Regards,
-agentzh