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Re: Some observations on developing with gcj
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>, <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:03:45 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Some observations on developing with gcj
On 29 Jun 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
>
> Mark> When closing the program down I wanted to use shutdown
> Mark> hooks. But they only really work when the program terminates
> Mark> cleanly. It would be nice if shutdown hooks were also triggered
> Mark> when the program receives a fatal signal (such as the user
> Mark> pressing Control-C).
>
> Does the JDK do that? This is worthy of a bug report.
It does, and at least one software package (Jetty) relies on shutdown
hooks to cleanly stop a running server via "kill".
(I wasn't going to file a PR unless I can't get to it soon.)
Jeff