Re: PerlIO and shutdown

01-07-21 21.28, skrev Ilya Zakharevich på ilya@math.ohio-state.edu följande:

> The question is: what to do with files on the interpreter exit (with
> Perl_destruct_level > 0).  What I can see is that
> 
> a) PerlIO is not flush()ing buffers, postponing this until atexit-time;
> 
> b) PerlIO is close()ing file descriptors at atexit-time;
> 
> What happens with PerlIO-less Perl?  What do we *want* to happen?
> 
> It is obvious that "a" and "b" are both unacceptable.  With
> Perl_destruct_level > 0 one expects to have many sequential
> interpreters (or one intepreter inside much longer living process), so
> having output sitting in some Perl-initiated buffer is not a good thing.

You forget the case with multiple pararell interpreters sharing the same
file descriptors, seems like they need to be refcounted.

-- 
Arthur

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