Re: [G2R] Re: Various releases ...

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Since Mr. Meeks is (by this time today) on his honeymooon, he's probably
unlikely to respond to this for two weeks. So, if you think it is that
bad, Havoc, you'll have to back the change out yourself (which is not
something, I think, Michael will approve of...)
Luis

On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 12:20, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> > 		+ shutdown ORB atexit to avoid UDS leaks (Michael)
> 
> Ugh, if I'm not mistaken this is the Evil use of atexit() - it's not
> debug-only.
> 
> Programs crash. Programs get the kill -9 treatment. atexit() is not
> reliable... fix the architecture... atexit() is just going to make
> things work "most of the time" and so we'll never be able to track
> down and fix the random bogons when it doesn't work.
> 
> Plus this reintroduces the "failure to use _exit() with fork/exec
> causes program implosion" issue that gtk 1.2 had.
> 
> Havoc
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