Process cleanup (was Shared memory ...)

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

>>>>> "John" == John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    John> Applications need to clean up after themselves.  The OS has
    John> no way of knowing whether an application wants its shared
    John> memory segments to survive after it terminates.

Tricky when the program crashes. Remember that a bug-free application
can still crash due to buggy shared-libraries.

I'm too lazy to look right this second ;-) ... do atexit() functions get
run when a process takes (say) a segmentation fault?

--lyndon


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