From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 28 12:37:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8440337B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C594243F3F for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0SKbYbs092267 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:37:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0SKbXWc092264; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:37:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:37:33 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200301282037.h0SKbXWc092264@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Sean Farley Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/47599: Memory leak on stdout In-Reply-To: <200301282030.h0SKU4WE075441@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200301282030.h0SKU4WE075441@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > I was just wondering if there is a point at which libc > was supposed to free the memory before exit. No, why should it? The process is exiting and all memory will be freed automatically. The library is expected to behave AS IF fclose(stdout) had been called, which it does by ensuring that all open streams have been flushed. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message