rxvt memory leak

[Mike Miller]

I was still running rxvt v. 2.7.1 on my Solaris server.  A user's rxvt 
process managed to fill every bit of swap which made it so that I could 
not start any new processes - not even to see what was running.  I had to 
create more swap space, then find the errant process.  Really nasty.

Has this been observed before and repaired in a more recent version? 
I've been running rxvt 2.7.1 for 4 years and haven't had a problem until 
today.  I suppose this means that the conditions that will cause such an 
event are rare.  The user was running an ssh connection in the window:

rxvt -e ssh blah...
I don't know if that is relevant.  Let me know if you know anything about 
this issue.  Thanks in advance.

Mike
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Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/