Re: {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: memory leak in gtk

[Vincent Torri <vtorri univ-evry fr>]

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 ;)

Vincent Torri