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No, I am not suggesting that the function passed to atexit delete a class.
I am suggesting that it NOT do anything with classes or any other allocated
items.  There is no guarantee of in what state the item that would be
deleted would be.  I wanted it to alter some data item in a way that
disables the watchdog or at least renders its activities harmless.  You
might put in a static bool member variable and declare the function as a
friend and the function set or clear its value to disable the watchdog.

Do not confuse atexit with code that runs normally.  It is called very late
in the program shutdown.  It is not a vehicle for deleting class instances.

.  Ed

"Duane Hebert" <spoo@flarn.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Ed.  The watchdog is handled by a class that is
> instantiated in the ctor of the main form and deleted in
> it's dtor.  The dtor of the watchdog, kills the watchdog.
> If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting to
> write a function to delete the watchdog object and call
> this function in atexit().  I will try that in the morning
> though I'm not sure about atexit() when there is no logoff.
> In that case, it works fine.  If I delete several objects in
> the main form's dtor and then call atexit() can I be sure
> that the other deletes will succeed?