Shutdown Handling: DLL & Shared Object Detachment?
Sergey Gromov
snake.scaly at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 17:01:20 PDT 2008
Benji Smith <dlanguage at benjismith.net> wrote:
> Sergey Gromov wrote:
> > The problem is, if DETACH is called because a process terminates, the
> > order of uninitializing process DLLs is unknown, not unlike the order of
> > collecting objects by GC is unknown. It may happen that sockets library
> > is already uninitialized. Basically you cannot do anything sophisticated
> > in DllMain which is discussed in the above article.
>
> That's good to know. I'll avoid anything fancy in my detach handler. I
> assume file IO is safe?
The file I/O is in kernel32.dll which is guaranteed to be present at all
times. Taking into account that D uses statically-linked runtime, I
think yes, file I/O should be safe.
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SnakE
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