Re: unset associative array may cause segfault

[Chet Ramey]

> >> reproducer:
> >> declare -A aaa
> >> aaa='somestring'
> >> unset aaa
> >>
> >> This commands cause segmentation fault, free unallocated memory.
> >> Chet do you already fix it? Here is my fast patch.
> >>      
> >
> > I already fixed it, thanks.  Your patch introduces large memory leaks;
> > the right place to fix it is where the code passes a literal string to
> > assoc_insert().
> >
> Nice, thanks. This fix (and others) will be in other round of patches 
> for bash-4.0 or in bash-4.1 or in bash-5.0 or...?

It will probably be a patch for bash-4.0, and will certainly be in bash-4.1.

Chet

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