The kernel still deallocated those pages as an explicit [manual] result of a free-like call -- that just so happens to be named exit(). To seriously tell peopl

The kernel still deallocated those pages as an explicit [manual] result of a free-like call -- that just so happens to be named exit(). To seriously tell people that every C program running on unix has automatic "garbage collection" built-in seems like it would create very confusing conversations.