fix application shutdown crash by not registering anything with atexit()v3.4.0

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/keeper.h b/src/keeper.h
index a9b5a22..decae4a 100644
--- a/src/keeper.h
+++ b/src/keeper.h
@@ -8,7 +8,16 @@ struct s_Keeper
         //int count;
 };
 
+// if enabled, call close_keepers at the very last as we want to be sure no thread is GCing after.
+// (and therefore may perform linda object dereferencing after keepers are gone)
+// problem: maybe on some platforms (linux) atexit() is called after DLL/so are unloaded...
+#define HAVE_KEEPER_ATEXIT_DESINIT 0
+
 char const* init_keepers( int const _nbKeepers, lua_CFunction _on_state_create);
+#if !HAVE_KEEPER_ATEXIT_DESINIT
+void close_keepers( void);
+#endif // HAVE_KEEPER_ATEXIT_DESINIT
+
 void populate_keepers( lua_State *L);
 struct s_Keeper *keeper_acquire( const void *ptr);
 void keeper_release( struct s_Keeper *K);