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Article #126memory leak, also trouble with echo (bash 0.99)
From: Andy Fyfe
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 02:29
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1989 02:29
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[running on a sun3, sunos 3.5]
The routine init_terminal_io calls "xmalloc" but never "free". It gets
called, it seems, with every (or at least many) SIGWINCH, and in no time
you can have a *VERY* large data segment. Included is a patch changing
the xmalloc to alloca. (Then again, maybe it would be best to just
allocate a fixed buffer?)
On the suns,
$ echo '\'
\UUUU
Where do the U's come from?
*** save/readline.c Thu Jun 15 19:04:05 1989
--- readline.c Thu Jun 15 19:04:09 1989
***************
*** 1234,1240 ****
return;
}
! buffer = (char *)xmalloc (2048);
BC = tgetstr ("pc", &buffer);
PC = buffer ? *buffer : 0;
BC = tgetstr ("le", &buffer);
--- 1234,1240 ----
return;
}
! buffer = (char *)alloca (2048);
BC = tgetstr ("pc", &buffer);
PC = buffer ? *buffer : 0;
BC = tgetstr ("le", &buffer);
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cit-vlsi.ai.mit.edu!andy From: andy@cit-vlsi.ai.mit.edu (Andy Fyfe) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: memory leak, also trouble with echo (bash 0.99) Message-ID: <8906160229.AA05556@cit-vlsi> Date: 16 Jun 89 02:29:17 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 32