Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:00:04 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Process cleanup (was Shared memory ...) Message-ID: <200003012000.e21K04x04001@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:28:13 PST." <200003011928.LAA75785@vashon.polstra.com>
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>>>>> "John" == John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> writes:
John> Applications need to clean up after themselves. The OS has
John> no way of knowing whether an application wants its shared
John> memory segments to survive after it terminates.
Tricky when the program crashes. Remember that a bug-free application
can still crash due to buggy shared-libraries.
I'm too lazy to look right this second ;-) ... do atexit() functions get
run when a process takes (say) a segmentation fault?
--lyndon
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