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To: Matthew Luckie <mjl@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.

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