[cups.development] found a resource leak in file socket.c

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Jun 30 13:46:21 PDT 2009


Ettl Martin wrote:
> ...
> BTW, this is a real resource leak!
> See at definition:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_leak

<sarcasm>
Right, because if it is in Wikipedia it *must* be true!
</sarcasm>

This will not be "fixed", since it is not a bug.  You can argue about
coding style, but the fact is that the OS can reclaim files, memory,
and other resources a LOT faster on exit than a program can, with no
side-effects.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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