Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] make csi close stdin/stderr/stdout when exiting.

[Christian Kellermann]

* John Cowan <address@hidden> [120424 16:17]:
> I frankly see no point in this.  Stdio streams are closed by calling
> exit(), and that's the appropriate time to kill them, when no further
> user-level code can be performed.  What is more, they are *all* closed,
> not just the three standard ones.
>
> If a particular port type wants to take special action before the program
> exits, it should register a procedure with the OS using atexit(), which
> is available in both Posix and Win32.  Such procedures are called by
> exit() just before streams are closed.  Note that on_exit and _onexit
> are alternative, deprecated, names for this function.

Yes I am aware of these alternatives and will pursue in this direction.

Please ignore this patch.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Christian

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