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authorHisham Muhammad <hisham.hm@gmail.com>2007-07-16 05:23:55 +0000
committerHisham Muhammad <hisham.hm@gmail.com>2007-07-16 05:23:55 +0000
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Add info about luacov.tick; fix validation.
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<title>LuaCov - Coverage analysis for Lua scripts</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="doc.css" type="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
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+<style type="text/css">
pre {
font-family: "Andale Mono", monospace;
}
@@ -147,6 +147,19 @@ the <tt>luacov</tt> module ran (the stats file stores the filenames, but
not the sources themselves).
</p>
+<p>
+LuaCov saves its stats upon normal program termination. If your program
+is a daemon -- in other words, if it does not terminate normally -- you
+can use the <tt>luacov.tick</tt> module, which periodically saves the
+stats file. For example, to run (on Unix systems) LuaCov on
+<a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/xavante">Xavante</a>,
+just modify the first line of <tt>xavante_start.lua</tt> so it reads:
+</p>
+
+<div class="Example">
+#!/usr/bin/env lua -lluacov.tick
+</div>
+
<h2><a name="history"></a>History</h2>
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