Re: Memory leak in bash 4.3

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/9/15 3:42 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:

> I think I have a minimal test case now:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> declare -a ARRAY
> 
> ARRAY[0]=foo
> FOO=${ARRAY[0]} # <-- leaks
> echo $FOO
> 
> And a candidate fix:
> 
> bash 4.3: Fix memory leak in parameter_brace_expand_word

Thanks for the report.  This is the right place for the patch.  I made
this change back in October 2014 as part of an unrelated fix for an
array element quoting issue.

(Your patch reuses `temp', but array_variable_part returns a SHELL_VAR *.)

Chet

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