Re: cygwin memory leak

[Ian Lambert <ian dot lambert_42 at yahoo dot com>]

>
>> The taken memory is never
>> freed until os restart.
>
>I donât think Cygwin could do that even if it wanted to, given that you
>donât 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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