dangers of _exit() - memory leak?
Sorry to repeat a question that has been posed repeatedly, but i couldn't find a specific mention of memory issues. if a process terminates with _exit(0) or _Exit(0) can its memory block be lost to the OS? Thanks, -nuun For just about any consumer O/S that will not happen. Modern multi-process Operating Systems will release any resources the process may have acquired (memory, locks, open files, etc) when the process shuts down. So I generally feel that memory or resource leaks "don't count" as leaks if I just acquire them at startup (not during runtime possibly repeatedly). However, there are