Re: interesting thread issue at exit()

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Paul Davis <pbd Op Net> writes:
> GDK registers an exit function to be called on normal process
> termination. This function will be called from whatever thread calls
> exit(2). However, the function is not thread safe, and if the thread
> calling exit(2) is not the "main GUI thread", many nasty things can
> happen.
> 
> This is not fixed in GTK+ 1.3/2.0, at least not as of a month or two
> ago. Do you folks consider this a genuine bug, or a design constraint?
> 

Fri Feb  1 08:57:38 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>

	* gtk/gtkmain.c (gtk_exit_func): Remove this useless
	atexit handler. (existance pointed out by Stefan Kost)

2001-02-19  Havoc Pennington  <hp redhat com>

	* gdk/gdk.c (gdk_exit_func): #if 0 this for now, don't install it
	(gdk_init_check): no atexit func

atexit functions are completely evil - the intent is to have none.

Havoc