fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Lastly, an atexit trigger will still fire during FATAL or PANIC aborts,
>> which scares me even more. When the house is already afire, it's
>> not prudent to politely let user-written perl code do whatever it wants
>> before you get the heck out of there.
> Is there a reason that these panics don't use _exit(3) to bypass
> atexit hooks?
Well, I don't really want to entirely forbid the use of atexit() ---
I'm just concerned about using it to run arbitrary user-written code.
There might be more limited purposes for which it's a reasonable choice.
regards, tom lane
