[imp-hackers] cl-ext:exit
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 2 17:20:11 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raymond Toy<raymond.toy at stericsson.com> wrote:
> Perhaps a bit off-topic, bug having never used any kind of exit hook,
> I'd like to know what people actually use them for. What do you use the
> exit hooks for?
Deleting temporary files, cleaning up, unloading libraries in a clean
way, closing connections to other programs (tcl, etc)... All sort of
mess that builds up along the program, has to stay alive for the whole
life of it and has to be cleaned up.
Juanjo
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