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From: "Daisuke Aoyama" <jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp>
To: "Molnar Laszlo" <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>,
        "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Memory leak in bash
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 07:31:33 +0900
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> 2) Why are you so sure it's a memory leak?  It can be just a
>result of known deficiencies in `malloc' and friends.  The fact that Bash
>requests more and more core from the DPMI host doesn't necessarily mean
>that it itself leaks memory (although it might).

Yes, it's not a leak but a bug.
If you can recompile bash sources, fix at line 227 of execute_cmd.c:
Before:
  else if (delay_remove_size >= delay_remove_counts)
After:
  else if (delay_remove_size <= delay_remove_counts)

Daisuke Aoyama
jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp

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