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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(main(argc,argv,env));
Message-ID: <6919@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 5 Jan 88 23:13:07 GMT
References: <1451@houdi.UUCP> <171@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <171@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>Moral: Start a company policy of not using exit().  Call Lexit() instead.
>Have a way of registering cleanup routines with Lexit. A possible solution:

ANSI C provides an atexit() function that helps immensely with this.
However, in the interim you need to take care of this yourself.
One possibility is to use my public-domain implementation of atexit()
and atexit-supporting exit(), which requires that your current "exit"
library entry be renamed, to "__exit" for example, but otherwise slips
right into your current C library.  Contact me if you need a copy.
	- Gwyn@BRL.MIL