[tarantool-patches] [PATCH v3 1/3] box: get rid of atexit() for calling cleanup routine

[Vladimir Davydov]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 03:50:58PM +0300, Konstantin Osipov wrote:
> * Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev at gmail.com> [18/12/27 15:45]:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +0300, Serge Petrenko wrote:
> > > Move a call to tarantool_free() to the end of main().
> > > Also instead of breaking the event loop directly when processing a
> > > signal start a fiber which can do some work before event loop break and
> > > then break the event loop (this will be helpful when on_shutdown
> > > triggers are implemented to run them while ev loop active).
> > > Only wal_thread_stop() is left in atexit() to make sure we close the
> > > journal in case the user exits by typing os.exit() to the console.
> > 
> > I don't understand why you need to do it in the scope of the issue
> > you're intending to fix. You can start a fiber from SITERM/SIGINT signal
> > handler and run on_shutdown triggers from it without atexit rework,
> > right?
> 
> I asked Sergey to refactor our atexit machinery. I want atexit
> handlers to be able to run the event loop, all such handlers, not
> just the exit trigger.

But this isn't what this patch does - it just moves some code from
atexit() to the end of main, after the event loop is stopped.