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Re: Memory leak in subshell + read before bash 4.4


From: Adrien Mahieux
Subject: Re: Memory leak in subshell + read before bash 4.4
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 02:48:56 +0100

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 2:21 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> If it's that, it's not a leak. It's bash-4.3 keeping exit statuses for the
> last CHILD_MAX processes.  Bash-4.4 restricts that to the last CHILD_MAX
> asynchronous background processes, with accompanying loss of functionality.

Ok, seems indeed to stall around the 50K loops (with "getconf
CHILD_MAX = 63460").

So, what's the difference in handling between "< <(cmd)" and "cmd | " ?

Is there any way to disable this feature ?
or should we consider these 500KB low enough to live with it,
regarding the current memory available on servers ?



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