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Re: memory leak in case of "read -e"
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: memory leak in case of "read -e" |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:44:41 -0500 |
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On 2/22/17 2:33 AM, ZhangXiao wrote:
> Hi Chet and experts,
>
> Build in command "read" with "-e" option causes memory leak. Can be
> reproduced with below script and lots of input data.
>
> $cat script.sh
> #!/bin/bash/bash
> while [ 1 ];
> do
> read -e data;
> echo $data;
> done
> $./script.sh
>
>
> The patch at the end of this mail can fix it.
Thanks for the report and fix.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/