Win2k and cygwin memory leak

[Rolf Campbell]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> As described, the memory leak is obviously not in cygwin.  It is in
> windows.  I was adding some clarification to the issue by changing a
> "may be" to a "definitely is".
> 
> I think that this kind of clarification is more useful than your
> message, which essentially says "If we could figure out what was causing
> the problem then maybe it could be fixed".  Personally, I don't see how
> that observation is useful.
> 
> Having had some experience with this, I find it highly doubtful that any
> useful data will come from people posting their "me too" experiences.
> If someone wants to fix this then researching the Microsoft Knowledge
> Base might be a place to start.  A google search might also be helpful.

Could it be *possible* that cygwin leaves some memory allocated?  Does 
windows claim to free all memory allocated by a process when it exits? 
What about cygwin shared memory?

I'm not claiming it's a cygwin problem, I'm just curious.

-Rolf



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