[ruby-core:35237] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#4400][Open] nested at_exit hooks run in strange order

Bug #4400: nested at_exit hooks run in strange order
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4400

Author: Suraj Kurapati
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Category: core
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [x86_64-linux]

Hello,

The documentation for Kernel#at_exit says "If multiple [at_exit] handlers are
registered, they are executed in reverse order of registration".  However, does
not seem to be true for nested at_exit hooks (registering an at_exit hook inside
another at_exit hook).  For example consider this code:

at_exit { puts :outer0 }
at_exit { puts :outer1_begin; at_exit { puts :inner1 }; puts :outer1_end }
at_exit { puts :outer2_begin; at_exit { puts :inner2 }; puts :outer2_end }
at_exit { puts :outer3 }

Here is the output of running this code with two Rubies:

ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [x86_64-linux]
outer3
outer2_begin
outer2_end
outer1_begin
outer1_end
outer0
inner1
inner2

ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [x86_64-linux]
outer3
outer2_begin
outer2_end
outer1_begin
outer1_end
outer0
inner1
inner2

Observe how inner1 and inner2 are executed in registration order after all 
non-nested hooks are executed in reverse registration order.  This seems very 
strange to me; I would expect nested at_exit hooks to be executed immediately 
(as follows) because we are already inside the at_exit phase of the program:

outer3
outer2_begin
inner2
outer2_end
outer1_begin
inner1
outer1_end
outer0

What do you think?  Thanks for your consideration.


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