> >> The taken memory is never >> freed until os restart. > >I don’t think Cygwin could do that even if it wanted to, given that you >don’t have any Cygwin services running. Once the last Cygwin process >dies, the OS *will* release the memory it was holding.
It does, however, seem vulnerable to fork bombs, like: $cat dontdothis #!/bin/sh while (( 1 )); do /bin/true ./dontdothis & done :) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
