https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4140
--- Comment #15 from Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-10-28 15:41:37 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> So why do all that work at exit? Resources private to the application (file
> descriptors, memory on the heap) don't need to be released by the application
> when it exits - all the OSes on which we currently run (various flavors of
> UN*X, Windows) will release them for you. The less work done on exit, the
> better (to minimize the delay between "quit the application" and its
> disappearance).
Right, but it's still good practice to free all possible resources.
If someone want the fastest exit (and don't care about 'leaks') he can put
return; in the begining of epan_cleanup()
But it'd be still reported by valgrind or other tools which care about such
leaks.
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