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

[Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm <gtk juniorpolegato com br>]

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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