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From: nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Ray Nickson)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: memory leak
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Date: 4 Sep 89 01:07:38 GMT
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The following bug which I reported in version 1.02 does not seem to have
gone away in 1.03.


	From:  Ray Nickson <nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
	Date:  Fri, 25 Aug 89 15:59:34 +1200

   I don't think this has been reported before; apologies if it has.

   Loops cause bash (1.02, gcc-compiled on HP300s running MORE/Bsd and
   Sun380s running SUNOS4) to consume memory without bound.

   This is quite dramatic; put bash into a tight loop
    (while :; do :; done) and watch the memory size; it goes up tens of 
   Ks a second on a lightly loaded sun.  Similar behaviour also occurrs
   with other more realistic loops, adding 20K or so for every half
   dozen iterations.

   Sorry I can't give any more details, I'll look deeper if you can't
   reproduce it.

-rgn
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Ray Nickson, Dept. Comp. Sci., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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