Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
Oh I used to love leaky HANDLE hunts. These things could bring windows 3.n (and maybe NT 4.v too?) to its knees pretty quickly so I was always really careful about diligently freeing them.<p>And, like many commenters below constantly surprised that so many apps still ship with these problems, since it&#x27;s so easy to spot them. Windows perfmon also gives you a nice graph, so you can correlate e.g. GUI behaviour with a jump in handles being created that then never get freed.