[plug] Does linux have a general garbage collector...

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Buddrige, David]
> Was just wondering -- does Linux have a general garbage collector
> built into the kernel such that RAM that was leaked by a badly
> written C/C++ program eventually get's reclaimed despite the RAM not
> being delete'd in the program itself - or would it be lost forever?

You might call it a garbage collector.  When a program exits, all
resources allocated by that program is reclaimed.  This releases file
descriptors, memory network connections etc.  This is common to all
unix like operating systems.
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