From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T14:07:12+09:00
Subject: Re: at_exit() Inherited Across fork()


On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>> I guess it just kind of feels like the scripting language should  
>> be doing something more clever for us here so we don't have to do  
>> this kind of stuff though.
>
> I'd rather that ruby mirror the C API, and make it easy to add your  
> own behavior on top of that.

My quick read of <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/ 
functions/atexit.html> suggests
that atexit handlers are only called when exit() is called or main()  
returns.  So atexit()
handlers are not called before a fork in the C/POSIX world.

If Ruby's at_exit() behavior differs from this, I'm not seeing it.

Gary Wright