some doubt about console application with socket

[ConjugateBeam]

hi everyone,
I have a small question about socket in console
I just follow a SDL socket tutorial on this website

http://content.gpwiki.org/index.php/SDL:Tutorial:Using_SDL_net

this application(the tcp server part) terminate when receive a buffer "quit" from remote client. But what if I run the server application and then close the window with the 'x' button while the client is still connected.

I know thats ok, but is there some side effect to the computer (like memory leak or something) ?

this is only a console application so I can't directly control through the applition itself.

any good suggestions? thanks in advance

[modoran]

Modern operating systems automatically free all resources when a process terminates, even if the programmer "forget" to do it. This is in theory, in practice you encounter nasty behavior if you don't close all sockets, opened files, etc yourself.

[ConjugateBeam]

all right,
thanks modoran, I didn't know that knowledge before
so the os will handle that for me

[tofiffe]

or you can use atexit() function just to be sure...