-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 23:11, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> even though it's "just" a command line utility. Who knows what >> weird, unexpected side effects there might be from running such an >> app within a tight bash loop. > > none*. And not cleaning up yourself also improves performance for short > running apps.
How so? > Gruss > Bernd > > * unless we talk persistent resources like files or ipc. That's the point. And what if there's a kernel (or would that be a glibc?) bug? Since you can't know the future of your software (more than once, I've seen a one-off script or program morph-expand into an important and much larger app) or the OS it will run on in the future, it's always good to clean up after yourself. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFINCb2S9HxQb37XmcRAq4WAKCd+UGDDIKarUy7YuznusgS1ZxIeACfadoc 3uC4lFzrlrkckOFSJtJWJbQ= =Z30s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
