Even on Desktop, we needed to move some cleanup to startup, in case the process was killed by the OS.
On 07/06/2019 20:40, Chris Peterson wrote: > On 6/7/2019 9:36 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:18:38AM +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote: >>> For late shutdown cleanup, we have nsLayoutStatics::Shutdown(). Do we >>> have a similar method for running things as soon as we've decided that >>> the application is going to shut down? >>> >>> (I know there are observer topics, but I'm trying to avoid having to >>> create an observer object and to make sure that _it_ gets cleaned up >>> properly.) >> >> Observers are automatically cleaned up at XPCOM shutdown, so you >> generally don't need to worry too much about them. That said, >> nsIAsyncShutdown is really the way to go when possible. But it >> currently requires an unfortunate amount of boilerplate. > > Note that on Android, you may never get an opportunity for a clean > shutdown because the OS can kill your app at any time. > > I don't know what is the recommendation for shutdown activities on > Android. The GeckoView team has had some recent bugs caused by shutdown > tasks not running (e.g. committing cached font files or deleting temp > files). I think these tasks were moved to startup or scheduled to run > periodically. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
