cygwin memory leak
Ian Lambert
ian.lambert_42@yahoo.com
Mon Jun 15 16:34:00 GMT 2015
>
>> The taken memory is never
>> freed until os restart.
>
>I don’t think Cygwin could do that even if it wanted to, given that you
>don’t have any Cygwin services running. Once the last Cygwin process
>dies, the OS *will* release the memory it was holding.
It does, however, seem vulnerable to fork bombs, like:
$cat dontdothis
#!/bin/sh
while (( 1 )); do
/bin/true
./dontdothis &
done
:)
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