Debug: Handle Leaks
The intent of these articles is not to regurgitate the WinDbg / NTSD help files but rather introduce real problems, what they are and how to solve them using the debuggers.
What is the handle?
To an application, a “handle” is some instance of a device, file, or some other SYSTem object or resource. The Application WILL create an instance of the Resource by calling a function such as CreateFile or RegOpenKey , and USE the handle is absent. calls to these functions to perform operations on the resource.
