Re: apr and shutdown

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:20:46PM -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> I'm posting this on prothon-dev.
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 06:40:01PM -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:
> >> Right now when I click on the go-away box in the upper-right of a
> >> win32 prothon console window, the Prothon app exits immediately
> >> without my shutdown code running.
> >>
> >> Can you tell me the standard C way to intercept a console shutdown?
> >> If there isn't a C standard for this is there an APR function?
> >
> > Hmm, I would suspect catching signals is what you want. Look at
> > apr_signal.h. I think a console kill like that would be SIGTERM or
> > SIGINT, or similar.
> 
> The constants for signals (APR_HAVE_SIGACTION, APR_HAVE_SIGWAIT, &
> APR_HAVE_SIGSUSPEND) are disabled in my APR.
> 
> This code is documented in my visual studio and I put it in my code but it
> seems to do nothing.  sig_handler is never called.

Can you check how python handles it? I know that POSIX also has a
function called atexit() which registers a function that is always
called at program exit. I'm not sure if it is called when the exit value
is non-zero though.

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