From 7b4fc17c6d6f6ee802ca909ee646eaedeee8e2ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:50:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Revise to use atexit instead of monkeying with sys.exitfunc
 directly.

---
 Lib/threading.py | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index fb2eb21778b..4921f0e5c7b 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -462,11 +462,8 @@ def __init__(self):
         _active_limbo_lock.acquire()
         _active[_get_ident()] = self
         _active_limbo_lock.release()
-        try:
-            self.__oldexitfunc = _sys.exitfunc
-        except AttributeError:
-            self.__oldexitfunc = None
-        _sys.exitfunc = self.__exitfunc
+        import atexit
+        atexit.register(self.__exitfunc)
 
     def _set_daemon(self):
         return 0
@@ -480,10 +477,6 @@ def __exitfunc(self):
         while t:
             t.join()
             t = _pickSomeNonDaemonThread()
-        if self.__oldexitfunc:
-            if __debug__:
-                self._note("%s: calling exit handler", self)
-            self.__oldexitfunc()
         if __debug__:
             self._note("%s: exiting", self)
         self._Thread__delete()