John Meacham wrote:
Yeah. this is a major bug in ghc IMHO. I believe it has been fixed, but
am unsure.
It hasn't been fixed, this is the current behaviour and it's likely to
stay that way, I'm afraid.
We used to run finalizers on exit, but we stopped doing that for various
reasons. Even when we did run finalizers on exit, we couldn't guarantee
to run all of them.
Since we can't rely on finalizers to run in general, some
sort of 'atexit' routine is needed. (which would be a good addition to
the standard libraries anyway)
You can implement atexit quite straightforwardly, if that's what you want.
exits = unsafePerformIO (newIORef []) :: IORef [IO ()]
main = do_stuff `finally` (readIORef exits >>= sequence_ . reverse)
atexit io = modifyIORef exits (io:)
In reality you probably want to use weak pointers here. Using this
version of atexit to close Handles is bad, because it holds on to the
Handle until the end of the program. Better to use a Weak pointer and
allow the Handle to be GC'd, but then you still need finalizers.
Cheers,
Simon
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