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From: "John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>
To: Wen Guangcheng <wen.guangcheng@cnt.sp.qnes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: linux-c-programming <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Newbie question on malloc()
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:08:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086196092.29970.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002d01c44897$78ae58d0$de01a8c0@qnessmphibiki>

Since no one else has answered yet.  

As I understand it, that is entirely up to the operation system.  Linux
and NT Kernel systems do reclaim unfreed memory, however I believe one
the major problems with Win98 was that it did not.

Anyone with more information feel free to correct me

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 07:48, Wen Guangcheng wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
> I have made a daemon in which dynamic memory is gotten
> by malloc(). Does the memory get free automatically without
> free() by the deamon  when the daemon process is killed?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --Wen
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-02 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-02 11:48 Newbie question on malloc() Wen Guangcheng
2004-06-02 17:08 ` John T. Williams [this message]
2004-06-02 17:41   ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-02 17:52     ` John T. Williams
2004-06-03  7:41       ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 11:32         ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-04  2:11           ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-04 12:31             ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-02 18:37     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-03  1:34       ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-03 19:42         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-03 23:44           ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-04  8:06             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-06-02 17:18 ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03  1:28 ` Micha Feigin
2004-06-03  7:23   ` Luciano Moreira - igLnx
2004-06-03  7:59   ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 22:25     ` John T. Williams
2004-06-03 23:24       ` Paul Gimpelj
2004-06-04  0:14         ` John T. Williams
2004-06-04  2:35         ` Glynn Clements
2004-06-03 23:53       ` Glynn Clements

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