Re: Glib and memory allocation

2005-02-09 Thread John Vetterli
Oho! If a part of the kernel, say a device driver, allocates memory in "kernel-space" and never explicitly frees it, then there would be a memory leak inside that device driver. And since the device driver is somewhat independent of the process that uses the device driver, there would be no autom

Re: Glib and memory allocation

2005-02-09 Thread Tim Müller
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 17:19, Cristiano Ghirardi wrote: > it's not clear to me what happens when memory has been allocate with > g_new or g_realloc and not freed. I mean: obviously this memory > remains in the user space of the process as an infamous memory leak > but it seems to me that und

Re: Glib and memory allocation

2005-02-08 Thread John Vetterli
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:19:03 +0100 Cristiano Ghirardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's not clear to me what happens when memory has been allocate with > g_new or g_realloc and not freed. I mean: obviously this memory > remains in the user space of the process as an infamous memory leak > but it s