From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...>
Date: 2011-12-27T20:32:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41827] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #5788] Thread#at_exit

2011/12/27 Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>:
> Motohiro KOSAKI <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think ruby impl w/o GVL can implement this feature.
>
> pthread_key_create() can be used to register a destructor function.
> I don't know about other thread APIs, though.

No.
The proposal API can replace with another thread's exiting hook. It's
racy be definition.
pthread_key_create() can't help.

Moreover, the proposal syntax may accelerate careless racy code.
That's bad. We sould
only encourage good custom.