Re: Memory leak within read builtin in both bash 4.0.x and 3.[12].x

[Chet Ramey]

werner@suse.de wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i586
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-4.0 
> -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-4.0/../readline-6.0
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 
> -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector 
> -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE 
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -Wall -g -std=gnu89 
> -Wextra -Wno-unprototyped-calls -Wno-switch-enum -Wno-unused-variable 
> -Wno-unused-parameter -ftree-loop-linear -pipe -fprofile-use
> uname output: Linux boole 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i586-suse-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 24
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         A memory leak in read builtin in both bash 4.0.x and bash 3.[12].x

Thanks for the report.  It will be fixed in bash-4.1.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/