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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:20:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 06:50 this Monday (GMT):
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:40:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 21:40 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>
>>> Actually, thinking about it, there are some things -- shared memory
>>> sections come to mind -- that are not automatically freed when a
>>> process terminates. But everything else -- memory, open files, network
>>> connections -- will go away automatically.
>>>
>>> If you have those persistent things that you want to clean up, your
>>> technique won’t be reliable anyway.
>> 
>> Does it get freed up when the other processes that have it open also
>> close it, or is it stuck until shutdown?
>
> POSIX shared memory sections stay in existence until deletion, or system 
> shutdown.
>
><https://manpages.debian.org/3/shm_unlink.3.en.html>


So that's something you should definitely be careful of if you're using
em.
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