Hook for `_exit'
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Aug 5 08:38:39 GMT 2022
* Po Lu:
> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> I think even if we add the hook in glibc, GTK will find a way to
>> terminate the process immediately by other means.
>
> GTK 3 is already in maintenance mode, so I doubt their developers will
> deliberately break programs relying on such a hook. In any case, it
> will let us ship a fix for this common problem to our users now, and
> negotiate with the GTK developers later should they break it.
It sounds like a bad idea to adopt a library that is already in
maintenance mode.
Why do you expect that its successor will handle this differently? Does
the successor use exit?
Thanks,
Florian
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