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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-11-10 14:35:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-11-11 01:40:12 +0000 |
| commit | 0339eb4598600024cedca14a7e882c1737dd2d82 (patch) | |
| tree | a83d8af40ed3fa2382f8720c0f74aaa8fad644f3 /NEWS | |
| parent | 7727908335ef1049deac42851026ed8bf5ae2734 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0339eb4598600024cedca14a7e882c1737dd2d82.tar.xz | |
csplit: fix a memory leak per input buffer
* src/csplit.c (free_buffer): Also free the line offsets buffers
(remove_line): Also free the containing structure
* tests/misc/csplit-heap: A new test to trigger with leaks of
this magnitude.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
Reported by David Hofstee
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- latent bug introduced in coreutils 8.1, and possibly a second latent bug going at least as far back as coreutils 5.97] - csplit no longer corrupts heap when writing more than 999 files. - Demonstrate with: seq 1000 | csplit - /./ '{*}' - [the bug was present in the initial implementation] + csplit no longer corrupts heap when writing more than 999 files, + nor does it leak memory for every chunk of input processed + [the bugs were present in the initial implementation] tail -F once again notices changes in a currently unavailable remote directory [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] |