> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:49 AM
> If we just avoid setting up the destructor calls using atexit
> then the destructors will only run once. So, in the normal
> case, the destructor will run after much cleanup has occurred
> in the cygwin DLL (specifically in the do_exit function).
> This means that the destructor may not be able to use all of
> the facilities of cygwin when it is finally executed.
Yup. That is why I don't think that the atexit call is obsolete.
> This won't be an issue for the problem below, but I wonder if
> it is a problem for other destructors. I'm not sure what
> kind of environment a global destructor is guaranteed to have
> but I suspect that it should be a completely normal environment.
>
> Anyone know for sure? Is there an online reference for this
> kind of thing?
It'll be in the C++ standard, which is proprietary :[. Anyone here have
the standard and care to check for us?
Rob
