Re: lynx-dev PATCH [dev21]: source caching

[Leonid Pauzner]

11-Apr-99 22:49 Scott Bigham wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> [I wrote, discussing "#define atexit(func) /* nothing */"]

>> > Eek!  That's almost certainly a bad idea.

>> no - only on MSDOS is it a bad idea (good idea on Unix and VMS, since
>> allocated memory is returned on exit from a process).

> Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of someone in the future
> trying to install an atexit function that does something besides release
> memory, not knowing he was being undercut.  I dunno, call me paranoid,
> but this just has "disaster waiting to happen" written all over it.

That was exactly what happens (for DJGPP lynx port).

>                                               -sbigham