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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Query on kdelibs/kdecore/io/kgrantpty.c
From:       "Gabriel Anderson" <zettablade () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-07-30 11:20:11
Message-ID: 26bbda730707300420k37b6b885hfec7b7689b046c8 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 7/29/07, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > nonsense. relying on the os doing cleanup is *perfectly* ok.
> >
> > I respectfully disagree, it's sloppy programming if nothing else.
>
> spending cycles doing useless things is hardly sloppy, it's understanding how
> the underlying system actually works.

It's gonna be done anyway, so why not make sure it's done? There's
ALWAYS the possibility that the OS doesn't free those resources. Why
even take that risk? Why not just add that one, simple line of code
that could possibly save headaches later on?
 
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