Message178670
The first reason for not calling atexit handlers upon exec() is that
it wouldn't be async-safe anymore, and could result in deadlocks.
Also, since atexit handlers are inherited upon fork(), running atexit
handlers upon exec() could result in such handlers being called
several times - something which should definitely be avoided.
Note that the atexit documentation states that handlers will only be
called in case of "normal interpreter termination".
So I'm -1 on the change, the chance of breaking existing applications
is way too high. |
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2012-12-31 12:01:03 | neologix | set | recipients:
+ neologix, georg.brandl, pitrou, nedbat |
2012-12-31 12:01:03 | neologix | link | issue16822 messages |
2012-12-31 12:01:03 | neologix | create | |
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