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• leak: n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished
  o they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in....
• memory leak n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
  Also (esp. at CMU) called core leak. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out....
• memory leak: n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
  Also (esp. at CMU) called {core leak}. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out....
• fd leak /F-D leek/ n. A kind of programming bug analogous to a core leak
  in which a program fails to close file descriptors (`fd's) after file operations are completed, and thus eventually runs out of them....
• fd leak: /F-D leek/ n. A kind of programming bug analogous to a {core leak}
  in which a program fails to close file descriptors (`fd's) after file operations are completed, and thus eventually runs out of them....
• core leak n. Syn. memory leak.
• ether leak
• leaky heap n. [Cambridge] An arena with a memory leak.
• A sheet of paper crossed my desk the other day and as I read it, realization of a basic truth came over me.
  So simple! So obvious we couldn't see it. John Knivlen, Chairman of Polamar Repeater Club, an amateur radio group, had discovered how IC circuits work....