On 1/7/14, 3:18 PM, Todd B. Stein wrote: > These bugs result in gradual slowdown of indefinitely-running scripts which > rely on parameter substitution (rather than forking sed or awk) for speed > and efficiency. Forgive me if I used the wrong terminology, but whether > these bugs are considered honest-to-goodness "memory leaks" by valgrind > seems unimportant. > > Are you saying these bugs have been fixed, and that they no longer exist in > bash 4.3?
If they show up on bash-4.2, but not when using bash-4.3, then I guess they no longer exist. I did find a case where valgrind reported memory leaks on bash-4.2 but not bash-4.3, so I will assume that they have been fixed. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/