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 _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
