On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, David Holland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:18:57PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > > proper resource management is a good thing - if the code continues > > to run. In this case, where the program exits, there no benefit > > from freeing up memory etc. > > Buncombe.
is that a technical argument? I didn't understand it, in any case.. can you explain why, in C, when exit() explicitly closes all open file descriptors and releases any memory etc (see a detailed list in exit(3) and _exit(3)), there might be a benefit in doing so formally before calling exit() ? regards, iain
