Re: Memory leak detected in valgrind

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/17/20 9:21 AM, Laurent Stacul wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 3
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>          Hello dear fellows,
>      I just spot that redhat GNU/Linux distributions have patched there bash
>      package since the bash release 4.3:
>
>      >cat bash-4.3-memleak-lc_all.patch
>      diff -up bash-4.3/locale.c.old bash-4.3/locale.c
>      --- bash-4.3/locale.c.old 2015-07-15 11:55:00.002857301 +0200
>      +++ bash-4.3/locale.c 2015-07-15 11:48:36.698086257 +0200
>      @@ -77,8 +77,6 @@ set_default_locale ()
>       {
>       #if defined (HAVE_SETLOCALE)
>         default_locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
>      - if (default_locale)
>      - default_locale = savestring (default_locale);
>       #endif /* HAVE_SETLOCALE */
>         bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
>         textdomain (PACKAGE);

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-07/msg00073.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-04/msg00063.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-06/msg00052.html


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