"put try/catch blocks around any "complicated" destructors, silently absorbing any exceptions that might occur. The rationale simply being – that, since you are dying anyway, nobody really cares about you anymore."

What an absolutely backwards, ignorant and absurd thing to do. Your assumption that nobody cares is equally as asinine.

If your destruction routines are that "complicated", fix them! If you're wrapping the destructor of someone else's code, DON'T hide information they may relay. You have no idea what someone is doing in there. What if it's designed to reset system components because if they don't get reset, the system may be damaged permanently after program restart? Yes, I have destructors that do these things.

"It might cause memory leaks but the bottom line is that the thing keeps going."

Wow. "Let's consume memory needlessly and permanently even though it's no longer needed or in use. Letting the program continue is more important than the stability of the system as a whole!".

Dumbfounding.

In reply to Re^2: Debugging DESTROY calls in forking application by stevieb
in thread Debugging DESTROY calls in forking application by cavac

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