Except that's up to the application to behave that way instead of some mysterious heuristic. If the programmer decides that terminating is the appropriate behav

Except that's up to the application to behave that way instead of some mysterious heuristic. If the programmer decides that terminating is the appropriate behavior, or is too lazy to do otherwise, then that is on the program. If programs have broken behavior then fix them, otherwise what is the point of all this open source software anyway? I find it incredible that Linux developers are expected to routinely deal with API breakages on library updates but would rather have random processes be terminated because the OS lies about memory than fix the badly behaving software!