[Bug 82123] Re: bash is not freeing memory of backticked output
George Pollard
porges at porg.es
Fri Jun 8 03:17:15 UTC 2012
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Title:
bash is not freeing memory of backticked output
Status in Bourne Again Shell:
Invalid
Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: bash
In feisty, when a command is called with backtick, there is apparently a memory leak which is fixed only once the correspong bash session is closed.
How to reproduce:
1. for i in `seq 1 100000` ; do true ; done
in a bash session (even gnome-terminal would do)
You can see the memory increasing, repeat this few times to observe that it is actually
increasing and not getting freed.
On the other hand
for i in $(seq 1 100000) ; do true; done
works fine.
My system is Feisty (upgraded from edgy, which was upgraded from
dapper, from breezy)
--Arnold
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