Re: [Help-smalltalk] Is there a hook (a method) which is called, if the vm ends?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/02/2009 02:39 PM, Joachim Jaeckel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 'finalize' is called, if the object will be garbage collected. But is
> there also a method, or exist a hook, that a method could be called, if
> the vm ends?
>
> I want to close my open files in a method of my object and write a last
> message into the files, before the vm ends.

Files are closed automatically.

However, you can use

ObjectMemory addDependent: self.

and then "self" will get a bunch of events dispatched via the #update: 
method.  grep "update:" in kernel/*.st for an example of its usage.

Paolo