Vincent Torri escreveu:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm wrote:
>> Vincent Torri escreveu:
>>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Michael Lamothe wrote:
> From what I've heard about memory leaking, this is not unique to the
GTK library. If the rumours are correct, applications like `ls` are
notorious for leaking memory, safe in the knowledge that the OS will
clean up after them.
>>> and if someone calls 'ls' iteratively in his program ?
>> When a process finish, the OS clean up memory. However, on some
>> cases, the cost to freeing the memory is greater than let to the OS.
> and ? You have definitely a leak there. Calling, in your program (with
> the exec() functions family), iteratively and infinitely a program
> that leaks can crash your system. 'ls' is maybe not a good example,
> but i'm sure you see what I mean ;)
I said "on some cases", like "ls". On this case you have described, the
cost is the system crash.
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