Grant Edwards <invalid <at> invalid.invalid> writes: > > > I assume that the memory used by the Python process will be reclaimed > > by the operating system, but other resources such as opened files may > > not be. > > All open files (including sockets, pipes, serial ports, etc) will be > flushed (from an OS standpoint) and closed.
According to POSIX, no, open files will not be flushed: “The _Exit() and _exit() functions shall not call functions registered with atexit() nor any registered signal handlers. Open streams shall not be flushed. Whether open streams are closed (without flushing) is implementation-defined.” http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_exit.html (under the hood, os._exit() calls C _exit()) Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
