On 31/01/2011 09:19 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I thought that (for example) if a
>> Unix process exits without freeing the memory it allocated, that memory
>> remains allocated forever.
>
>    I really can't understand why you would think that.

Because in order to do this, the OS would have to keep track of not only 
what resources are in use, but *who* is using them.

OTOH, if you have virtual memory, you presumably have to keep track of 
who's using which pages anyway...

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