Joris Vankerschaver <joris.vankerschaver@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 7. Apr.
2017 um 10:52 Uhr:

> Hi all,
>
> I wrote a small Emacs dynamic module to execute Python scripts in an
> embedded
> Python interpreter (https://github.com/jvkersch/emacs-python). The main
> thing
> missing is that I would like to do some cleanup in the embedded Python
> interpreter when Emacs exits (close open files, deal with
> threads/processes,
> etc). What would be the best way to do so?
>
> 1. Can I just register an atexit handler when my module starts, or will
> that
> interfere with some Emacs internals?
>

Unless you attempt to call Emacs functions in the atexit handler, that
should be fine.


>
> 2. Would it make sense to add support to the module API for a cleanup
> callback
> that is called when Emacs exits?
>

You can already use the hook `kill-emacs-hook' as usual. That's especially
useful if your cleanup needs to interact with Emacs.