Re: Memory Management Question

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From	jgk@panix.com (Joe keane)
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Subject	Re: Memory Management Question
Date	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:26:43 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <4edcc46e$0$3065$7b1e8fa0@news.nbl.fi>,
Juha Nieminen  <nospam@thanks.invalid> wrote:
>  I don't know why, but I find the notion that an OS would not free the
>resources reserved by a process so antiquated that it's almost amusing.

It will release process-specific VM, and close file descriptors, but
that doesn't mean it solves all your problems.

a) process creates a file, it intends to delete it when it's done, but
if it crashes the file is still there

b) lots more cases i can think of

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      Re: Memory Management Question jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-12-16 02:26 +0000

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