Re: Memory leak in brace expansion

[Chet Ramey]

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib   -g -O2 
> -Wall
> uname output: Linux sasaka.net 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 21:50:19 UTC 
> 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 4.1
> Patch Level: 5
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>   It seems that there is memory leak in brace expansion. The memory used by 
> bash interpreter gets larger and larger when running this script:

Thanks for the report.  This has been fixed for the next version.

Chet

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