Re: handler for normal termination? (END)

No, signals aren't sent for normal flow.

END { clean_up() }
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Note that you can use $? in an END handler to get a guess as to whether the script is ending "normally" or not.

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Re^2: handler for normal termination? (END) by BenHopkins (Sexton) on Jun 23, 2007 at 05:10 UTC
C always cleaned up after termination using, I figured, a signal from UNIX on process termination. Silly me to think that behavior would be emulated. Anyhow, the END block works just fine. Thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: handler for normal termination? (END) by Joost (Canon) on Jun 23, 2007 at 09:24 UTC
C doesn't clean up much* by it self and when you need to do your own clean up handling you use end handers, which are not exactly signal handlers, just like perl. See the atexit() function in stdlib. * besides closing the file handles and freeing the memory, which are done by the kernel regardless of language. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]