Re: Just to be sure: file closing on pool cleanup?

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 12:49, Branko Èibej wrote:
> Pool cleanup will close the file, but we should call apr_file_close
> anyway, because we don't want open file handles hanging around until
> somebody happens to clear the pool.

Can you explain why an open file or two hanging around until pool
cleanup is enough of a travesty as to warrant complicating the cleanup
path, whereas a chain of subpools containing who knows how much
allocated memory is fine?

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Received on Fri Nov 28 00:52:15 2003