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From: Matthew Luckie <mjl@SDSC.EDU>
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Subject: atexit
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Hi

I'm wondering under what conditions a function specified with atexit()
won't get called on FreeBSD when a program terminates.

The manual page says it gets called "via exit(3) or via return from the
program's main".

I take it that the cleanup function won't be called if the program dumps
core, or if it is terminated with a kill(1) - or might it?

Thanks

Matthew


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