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Top Forums Programming about virtual memory and memory leak Post 99647 by jim mcnamara on Monday 20th of February 2006 10:31:20 AM
Old 02-20-2006
Why not create a SIGTERM signal handler that does a graceful exit? Graceful meaning you call an atexit() handler to clean up memory.

kill -9 is generally a bad idea. Even if you don't write an exit handler, do not use
SIGKILL (kill -9) because it can prevent any further operations by the system on behalf of the process. The process leaves junk behind when this happens.
 

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pfm_cleanup(3ncs)														 pfm_cleanup(3ncs)

Name
       pfm_cleanup - establish a clean-up handler

Syntax
       #include <idl/c/base.h>
       #include <idl/c/pfm.h>

       status_$t pfm_$cleanup(cleanup_record)
       pfm_$cleanup_rec *cleanup_record;

Arguments
       cleanup_record	   A  record  of the context when is called.  A program should treat this as an opaque data structure and not try to alter
			   or copy its contents.  It is needed by and to restore the context of the calling process at the clean-up handler  entry
			   point.

Description
       The  routine  establishes a clean-up handler that is executed when a fault occurs.  A clean-up handler is a piece of code executed before a
       program exits when a signal is received by the process.	The clean-up handler begins where is called; the routine registers an entry  point
       with the system where program execution resumes when a fault occurs.  When a fault occurs, execution resumes after the most recent call to

       There  can  be  more  than one clean-up handler in a program.  Multiple clean-up handlers are executed consecutively on a last-in/first-out
       basis, starting with the most recently established handler and ending with the first clean-up  handler.	 The  system  provides	a  default
       clean-up  handler  established at program invocation.  The default clean-up handler is always called last, just before a program exits, and
       releases any system resources still held, before returning control to the process that invoked the program.

Diagnostics
       When called to establish a clean-up handler, returns the status pfm_$cleanup_set to indicate the clean-up handler was  successfully  estab-
       lished.	 When the clean-up handler is entered in response to a fault signal, effectively returns the value of the fault that triggered the
       handler.

       This section lists status codes for errors returned by this routine in

       pfm_$bad_rls_order  Attempted to release a clean-up handler out of order.

       pfm_$cleanup_not_found
			   There is no pending clean-up handler.

       pfm_$cleanup_set    A clean-up handler was established successfully.

       pfm_$cleanup_set_signaledl
			   Attempted to use pfm_$cleanup_set as a signal.

       pfm_$invalid_cleanup_rec
			   Passed an invalid clean-up record to a routine.

       pfm_$no_space	   Cannot allocate storage for a clean-up handler.  Clean-up handler code runs with asynchronous faults  inhibited.   When
			   returns  something  other  than  pfm_$cleanup_set indicating that a fault has occurred, there are four possible ways to
			   leave the clean-up code:

			   o	  The program can call to start the next clean-up handler with a different fault signal.

			   o	  The program can call to start the next clean-up handler with the same fault signal.

			   o	  The program can continue with the code following the clean-up handler.  It should  generally	call  to  reenable
				  asynchronous	faults.   Execution  continues from the end of the clean-up handler code; it does not resume where
				  the fault signal was received.

			   o	  The program can reestablish the handler by calling before proceeding.

Files
See Also
       intro(3ncs), pfm_signal(3ncs)

																 pfm_cleanup(3ncs)
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