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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>leak</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="leaf-site.html" title="leaf site"/><link rel="next" href="leaky-heap.html" title="leaky heap"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">leak</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leaf-site.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="leaky-heap.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="leak"/><dt xmlns="" id="leak"><b>leak</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that
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occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are
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finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual
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exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.
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<a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a> has its own entry;
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one might also refer, to, say, a <span class="firstterm">window handle
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leak</span> in a window system.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leaf-site.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="leaky-heap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leaf site<74></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>leaky heap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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