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Run Procees in Background

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you can detach the thread...

 

just make a script that starts a certain function in a separate thread

local thread = require("thread");

theMainfunctionForThisThread = function()  --[[ here your background process, or a require and a call to the actual process]] end;

local yourBackgroundProcess = thread.create(theMainfunctionForThisThread);
yourBackgroundProcess:detach();

-- done, the script will stop, but the background process will run till it's mainloop is stoped.

be aware, errors in other threads can be eaten. so make sure the process is working perfect before doing something like this. (or at least use some logging mechanisme or error handling in your process you want to background.)

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