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From: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie question on malloc()
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 04:28:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603012832.GC2562@luna.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002d01c44897$78ae58d0$de01a8c0@qnessmphibiki>

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:48:07PM +0900, 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.
> 

It does, but in general its not in good practice to count on process
exit for freeing memory (a good way to get memory leaks).

> --Wen
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-03  1:28 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
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 [this message]
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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