From: Quintus <quintus@...>
Date: 2012-05-10T00:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Hooking into the VM's shutdown process

Am 09.05.2012 17:44, schrieb Darryl L. Pierce:
> I've got a native extension that needs to run in a thread separate
> from the Ruby VM. But the problem is that I can't find a way to signal
> that process that it needs to stop running when the Ruby VM shuts
> down. IOW, I need a way to hook into the Ruby VM's shutdown process so
> I can notify this thread to exit.
> 
> Any clue on how to do this?
> 

Probably you could write a C function to do the notification, then
bridge that C function over to Ruby, and from there call it inside an
#at_exit handler?

Vale,
Marvin