Stephen Russell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you kill the offending app, and the memory isn't released back to the OS, >> how >> exactly *isn't* this the OS's fault? > ---------------------------- > > The killing was not completing within the app itself.
Killing and quitting are different things: quitting: send a message to the app requesting it to close killing: force quit the app immediately, not giving the app a chance to do anything else. So you click the little box and FF doesn't quit. That's FF's fault. So you ask the OS to kill FF. If the OS can't kill FF and release the memory FF was taking up, that is squarely the OS's fault. One of the main reasons to have an OS in the first place is to manage and control access to the physical hardware. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
