From 8805eeb44a291b830e9eb1a430d112913ffa9a24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis Vlasenko Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:19:48 +0000 Subject: shells: update README and testsuite. environment memory leak needs to be fixed - and documented! --- shell/README | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'shell/README') diff --git a/shell/README b/shell/README index d492671fb..919cb9fef 100644 --- a/shell/README +++ b/shell/README @@ -1,6 +1,20 @@ Various bits of what is known about busybox shells, in no particular order. -2006-05-06 +2007-05-21 +hush: environment cannot be handled by libc routines as they are leaky +(by API design and thus unfixable): hush will leak memory in this script, +bash does not: +pid=$$ +while true; do + unset t; + t=111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 + export t + ps -o vsz,pid,comm | grep " $pid " +done +The fix is to not use setenv/putenv/unsetenv but manipulate env ourself. TODO. +hush: meanwhile, first three command subst bugs mentioned below are fixed. :) + +2007-05-06 hush: more bugs spotted. Comparison with bash: bash-3.2# echo "TEST`date;echo;echo`BEST" TESTSun May 6 09:21:05 CEST 2007BEST [we dont strip eols] -- cgit v1.2.3