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

Greg Hudson wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 12:49, Branko Čibej 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
>
One or two are usually fine. O(n) aren't.

> 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?
>
>
That's not fine, either. Howecer, file handles are usually a scarser
resource than memory.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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