Re: xfree leaking memory?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window 
>>(such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that 
>>window is destroyed.  This indicates one of a few things to me:
>>
>>1) We are not freeing our window privates (directly or indirectly). 
>>This seems plausible, but I don't think our window privates are even 1 
>>kilobyte.
>
>I thought I should point out that Cygwin doesn't currently return
>deallocated memory to the windows pool.  So, the heap only gets larger.

I thought I should point out that, while I wrote the function in
question, the above statement was completely wrong.  I was investigating
sbrk() operation for an unrelated matter and noticed that it was
dutifully releasing unused memory back to the system.

I don't know why I thought things behaved any differently than this but
I thought I should correct any misperceptions that I caused.

cgf