Re: Bash 5.2.0: Memory leak with $(<file)

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/7/24 12:59 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 00:26 pourko--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne
> Again SHell <bug-bash@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > For demonstration, put a $(<file) construct inside a loop, and the leak
> > becomes very noticeable:
>
> The bug is not present in bashes before 5.2.0.
> >
>
> I believe this is fixed in (yet unreleased) Bash 5.3. See report [1]
> applied in [2].
>
>   [1]:  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2023-06/msg00045.html
>   [2]:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/diff/builtins/evalstring.c?h=devel&id=81f7b44564cd1510788035cea7c59631865a7db2&dt=1#n766

It's the change to open_redir_file that makes the difference, in case it's
not clear from the diff.

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