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From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: cal(1) -- really exit(3)
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Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 16:22:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  2 16:22:05 1987
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In article <2352@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>
>Wouldn't it be easier to replace the supplied exit() with one
>that worked, e.g. that implemented onexit(), so stdio could get
>its buffers flushed without rewriting every program?

The original idea behind this was to keep the tools in
/usr/bin and /bin small by not including the stdio library.
Exit(), if it called _cleanup(), would bring in large chunks
of otherwise unused code.

I think a better solution would be to rename the existing
exit() to _exit() and create an exit() subroutine which
calls _cleanup() and change the tools which don't use stdio
to call _exit().  Whew!  I said all that in one breath. :-)
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