[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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