On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:24:50AM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:

> > int main(void) {
> >     int result = 10;
> > 
> >     printf("%i\n", result);
> >     return(EXIT_SUCCESS);
> > } 

> stdio will allocate a buffer when stdout is first used.  Try adding
> "fclose(stdout);" before your return(EXIT_SUCCESS).  dmalloc showed
> no not-freed pointers after doing that here.

Although it was the cure: is it logical to close(stdout) - when there wasn't
any open(stdout) done?

> Maybe Linux does an implicit fclose() on exit?

And isn't it more logical? No "formal" opening - so, no "formal" closing...
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						Zbigniew Baniewski