Re: Crash on exit

[Andrei Zmievski <andrei ispi net>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, David Benson wrote:
> > Hmm, I should have .c file with a call to g_atexit() that does nothing
> > or define a function called g_atexit() that does nothing?
> 
> ghack.c:
> 
> 	void g_atexit()
> 	{
> 	  /* do nothing */
> 	}
> 
> Build the .so file:
> 
> 	gcc -c -o ghack.o ghack.c
> 	ld -shared -o ghack.so ghack.o
> 
> Test it:
> 
> 	LD_PRELOAD=/home/username/ghack.so 
> 	export LD_PRELOAD
> 	apache			# or however you start it.

Can I just include fake g_atexit() function in my bindings code instead
of compiling a separate file and setting LD_PRELOAD?

> Also:
> 	most languages do not unload the gtk+ module
> 	once it is loaded.  you can probably achieve this
> 	effect by calling 
> 		dlopen("/usr/lib/libgtk.so", RTLD_SHARED);
> 	this might be more desirable for you, but once again,
> 	may not work.

Yes, I just discovered Python does not call dlclose() on the imported
modules. The thing is, I don't call dlopen() on libgtk.so directly, my
bindings .so file is simply linked against it.

> ps.  why are you making gtk+ binding to php anyway?  how will you use them?

Well, PHP can be run from command line as well, so why not? :) It's just
another language.

-Andrei
* Use the source, Luke. *