[Bug translator/5045] translator not cleaning up temporary directories

[fche at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2008-02-08 17:16 -------
> A quick test shows it seems to work in response to normal termination signals.

What works?  atexit() hooks running during a termination signal?  Not in my
experiments.

> Even if it didn't, it just takes a few lines of code to set up a handler that
> calls exit().

But many functions cannot be legally called from signal handlers.
exit() specifically is not listed: see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_04.html

> Why would you need an "exit-soon" global in a bunch of loops? None
> of that happens right now, just the default action (termination) in response to
> ^C. All we want to do is add some cleanup before that happens.

Yes, but if we bother, let's do it cleanly.


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