I'd love to find a way to call a sound library's "terminate" function when Racket shuts down. My recollection of the lay of the land here is that it's very hard to make this happen correctly without mangling Racket itself. At a high level, I believe the explanation is that it violates the boundaries of the user "sandbox"--not a literal sandbox here.
My experiments have involved will executors, and it seems that they get called
fine when I explicitly remove all references to a value and then call
collect-garbage, but not when I just quit drracket or re-run the buffer.
For instance:
#lang racket
(require racket/date)
(define my-executor (make-will-executor))
(define token-value 13)
(set! token-value (list 3 4 5))
(will-register my-executor token-value
(lambda (dc) (with-output-to-file "/tmp/foo"
(lambda ()
(format "~a\n"
(date->string
(seconds->date (current-seconds)))))
#:exists 'append)))
(thread (lambda ()
(will-execute my-executor)))
I'm guessing that to make this work, I'd have to move the thread outside of the
current custodian, and even that might not work if you quit the whole
application.
Am I missing something obvious, or is this genuinely hard to do without
"cheating" ?
John
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