Some observations on developing with gcj

Mon Jun 30 18:03:00 GMT 2003

On 29 Jun 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
>> Mark> When closing the program down I wanted to use shutdown
> Mark> hooks. But they only really work when the program terminates
> Mark> cleanly. It would be nice if shutdown hooks were also triggered
> Mark> when the program receives a fatal signal (such as the user
> Mark> pressing Control-C).
>> Does the JDK do that? This is worthy of a bug report.

It does, and at least one software package (Jetty) relies on shutdown
hooks to cleanly stop a running server via "kill".
(I wasn't going to file a PR unless I can't get to it soon.)
Jeff