[Development] Backporting the "stop unloading plugins" change to 5.6

[Konstantin Tokarev]

17.10.2016, 12:33, "Edward Welbourne" <edward.welbourne at qt.io>:
> Marc Mutz
>>  Please don't equate 'resource' with 'memory'. Memory is just one of many
>>  resources a program may have acquired, and the _only_ resource which does not
>>  need to be released at program exit.
>
> Open file descriptors ?

Open file descriptors are closed by OS automatically when process exits.

There are kinds of resources that can really leak though, e.g. named semaphores

> There may be others, but that's the one I tend to think of.
> ... and I did qualify with "that gets released on exit" language.
>
>         Eddy.
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Konstantin