Warp wrote:
>   I don't know of any operating system which could not automatically free
> the memory used by a process when the process terminates.

The original AmigaOS. Verix. Probably many embedded OSes.

It's more that the OSes are "multi-user" than they are "C-based". You 
have to clean up, or you risk disrupting other apps.

But it's true that Win98 recovers most resources after you kill a 
process. Certainly it doesn't leak any more memory than it normally 
would. ;-)

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