On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Hal Rosenstock
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Sean Hefty <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>It's not a matter of relying on exit for open fds but rather the
>>>allocated memory under the covers of mad_rpc_open_port so no longer
>>>can one rely on just exit and this needs to be made explicit.
>>
>> The OS should reclaim any allocated memory not freed by the app when it 
>> exits.
>> Is this your concern?
>
> malloc'd memory ?

Many OSs do but not all. Should we rely on this ? Also, don't other
userspace programs attempt to properly cleanup after themselves rather
than rely on OS cleanup behavior ?
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