From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:50:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Revise to use atexit instead of monkeying with sys.exitfunc directly.
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~368
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b4fc17c6d6f6ee802ca909ee646eaedeee8e2ac;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Revise to use atexit instead of monkeying with sys.exitfunc directly.
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diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index fb2eb21778bf..4921f0e5c7bf 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -462,11 +462,8 @@ class _MainThread(Thread):
         _active_limbo_lock.acquire()
         _active[_get_ident()] = self
         _active_limbo_lock.release()
-        try:
-            self.__oldexitfunc = _sys.exitfunc
-        except AttributeError:
-            self.__oldexitfunc = None
-        _sys.exitfunc = self.__exitfunc
+        import atexit
+        atexit.register(self.__exitfunc)
 
     def _set_daemon(self):
         return 0
@@ -480,10 +477,6 @@ class _MainThread(Thread):
         while t:
             t.join()
             t = _pickSomeNonDaemonThread()
-        if self.__oldexitfunc:
-            if __debug__:
-                self._note("%s: calling exit handler", self)
-            self.__oldexitfunc()
         if __debug__:
             self._note("%s: exiting", self)
         self._Thread__delete()