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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> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <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
occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are
finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual
exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.
<a href="../M/memory-leak.html"><i class="glossterm">memory leak</i></a> has its own entry;
one might also refer, to, say, a <span class="firstterm">window handle
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> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leaky-heap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leaf site </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leaky heap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>