* Declaring local variables inside while loop leads to memory leak
@ 2016-07-26 10:35 Vladimir Didenko
2016-07-26 21:35 ` Jilles Tjoelker
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From: Vladimir Didenko @ 2016-07-26 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dash
Hi.
I found that declaring local variables inside while loop leads to
memory leak. Code sample:
test()
{
while [ true ]; do
local a=
done
}
test
--
Regards,
Vladimir.
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2016-07-26 10:35 Declaring local variables inside while loop leads to memory leak Vladimir Didenko
@ 2016-07-26 21:35 ` Jilles Tjoelker
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From: Jilles Tjoelker @ 2016-07-26 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vladimir Didenko; +Cc: dash
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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