Charles-François Natali added the comment: 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. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16822> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
