Re: Memory Leak - Bash 4.3.x30

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/26/24 1:33 PM, Jordi Ferrer wrote:
>     Just in case for people running old servers:
>
>     This simple code cause a memory leak in bash:
>
>     #!/bin/bash
>     #
>     Array=("S" "E")
>     while [ 1 ]; do
>         A=${Array[0]}
>     done

This was fixed by patch 40 to bash-4.3; if you're running a fully-patched
version you won't encounter it.

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