Bash 5.2.0: Memory leak with $(

2024-01-06 Thread pourko--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell 
For demonstration, put a $(/tmp/file
while :;do
  var=$(

Re: Bash 5.2.0: Memory leak with $(

2024-01-06 Thread Grisha Levit 
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 00:26 pourko--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne
Again SHell  wrote:

> For demonstration, put a $( 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

Re: Bash 5.2.0: Memory leak with $(

2024-01-06 Thread pourko--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell 
Jan 6, 2024, 23:59 by grishale...@gmail.com:

>
>
> 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 $(> 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
>

Could we maybe get a patch for the 5.2 series?

It's unclear when stable distros will start shipping with 5.3, and reverting to 
5.1 is not a pleasant alternative.