Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:46:00 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: Matthew Luckie <mjl@SDSC.EDU> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: atexit Message-ID: <200103092346.f29Nk0n04208@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:35:33 PST." <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103091531250.24402-100000@multivac.sdsc.edu>
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In message <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103091531250.24402-100000@multivac.sdsc.edu>, mjl@SD SC.EDU writes: >I take it that the cleanup function won't be called if the program dumps >core, Right, unless you dump core by forking a child process and doing it in that context. >or if it is terminated with a kill(1) The function can never be called when some one does a kill -9, although you're free to catch other signals and shutdown gracefully. Terminating with a call to _exit() will also not invoke your function. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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