Re: Memory leak when using ${!prefix@} in a loop

[Chet Ramey]

muszi@muszi.kite.hu wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i486
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-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
> uname output: Linux muszi.kite.hu 2.6.28.10 #2 PREEMPT Fri Jun 12 14:13:54 
> CEST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i486-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       Looks like we have a memory leak when using ${!prefix@} in a loop
> 
> Repeat-By:
>       It can be reproduced by running this little script:
> 
>       while true; do
>         echo "${!prefix@}"
>       done

Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next version of bash.

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