On 20.10.2010 10:07, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Idwer Vollering <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is this a possible memory leak ? If so, it needs to be fixed in flashrom >> too. >> > > It would only be a memory leak if used in a long running process that > doesn't use the file over and over. As it stands, the OS will reclaim > the memory used to create the file descriptor when the process ends, > and I am not sure there's much practical point in closing the file. > However academically, the file probably should be closed. >
AFAIK flashrom does close all file descriptors, even those used for device I/O on some BSDs. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
