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
I'm very sorry; I believe I may have wasted your time. After further
testing, I can only reproduce this using xfce4-terminal (0.6.2) in Fedora
19. Read works fine in gnome-terminal and on tty's, so I hereby
respectfully retract my report. Thank you for the work you guys do!
Just to show I'm not (c