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"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> ... Isn't such kind of resource control _generally_ nicer to implement
> in the top levels of a program?

In theory perhaps, but my understanding of our use of atexit()
is to clean them up in situations beyond the control of the top
levels of a program, most notably upon exit on signal.