From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T15:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: at_exit() Inherited Across fork()

Gary Wright wrote:
> 
> 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

What I meant to say was, I'd rather that ruby *continue* to mirror the C 
API... I'm a ruby conservative :)

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