On 11/3/17 6:01 PM, Adrien Mahieux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think I've found a bug in the loop management. Maybe it's an
> expected behavior (didn't find any related topic on the manpages) but
> it's annoying in long-running scripts.
>
> The leak is triggered by this idiom (wether or not jobcontrol + lastpipe) :
> cmd | read var
>
> but not by this one :
> read var < <(cmd)
>
> Tested with :
> - bash-4.2.46-19.el7.x86_64
> - bash-4.3.42-5.fc23.x86_64
> - bash-4.3-48.x86_64
>
> From the version tested, it was fixed in version 4.4 (tested 4.4-beta)
> Do you have an idea of the commit that fixed this behavior, so the fix
> can be backported to older versions ?
Have you tried bisecting the devel git branch?
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