Re: BEGIN, INIT etc...

Bart Lateur writes:

> Joost Diepenmaat wrote:
>
>>END blocks are useful to "guarantee" that code gets run when the program
>>ends, even if for example an exception is thrown. Useful for system
>>resources that may not get freed properly otherwise.
>
> Unfortunately they're still not called on exit and on exec.

They are called on exit(), just not on POSIX::_exit

$ perl -w -Mstrict -e'END{ print "END"}; exit'
END

Cheers,
Joost.

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