On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:35:53PM +0300, Vladimir Didenko wrote:
> I found that declaring local variables inside while loop leads to
> memory leak. Code sample:
> test()
> {
> while [ true ]; do
> local a=
> done
> }
> test
This can indeed consume a lot of memory. The memory is freed when the
function returns.
This could be fixed by adding a check before making a variable local but
that might make functions with many distinct locals slower.
Also note that the problem does not occur if local is used at the top of
a function only, as recommended by the man page.
--
Jilles Tjoelker
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