site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Sep 22, 2004, at 8:13, Stephane Sudre wrote: Stupid question probably: When a process is properly exited, exit is called in the Kernel. When a process crashes, exit is not called. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | When LuteFisk is outlawed | Only outlaws will have | LuteFisk *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------* _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Is there a specific syscall called when a process crash? Are you sure that exit() in the kernel is not called? If this were not the case, we'd be leaking file entries, memory, and other resources. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com