[Taking discussion out of the bug since it's not specifically related to
that bug.]
On 06/18/13 18:20, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8674#c8
However, those
protocols currently use glib memory and therefore leak on shutdown,
Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron? :-)
(I know, I know, a while ago I spent a bunch of time cleaning up the
preferences code to avoid leaks on shutdown--I think I commented
something like "I do this just so I know where it is the stuff is being
freed.")
But, more seriously, Guy pointed out a (long?) while ago that a certain
OS from a company he knows well has a way for applications to tell the
OS something like "I have nothing to save before exiting" and when that
flag is set and the user closes the app, the OS kills it with SIGKILL:
it's faster and simpler that way. It's an interesting concept... It
makes me think that we shouldn't really be spending time trying to fix
leaks on shutdown.
