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 ? _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
