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Scott says his rc leaks memory on interrupts.  Like Byron, I can't duplicate
this.  Scott, could it be a startup thing?  Don't forget that rc, quite
legitimately, grows at first when you do things.  That's not a leak,
because it doesn't _keep_ growing when you _keep_ doing them.  As Byron
pointed out to me at one stage:

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Re: sun rc growing slowly. I find that when I start up a copy of rc and
type a few things at it, it grows. However, the real test for a memory
leak is to type the same command 1000 times. Does the shell grow in this
case?

(of course, you don't type the same command 1000 times, you . a file with
the command written out 1000 times)

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I tried this with 1.4.  Do a ps l of your rc, then in another window
(to avoid observer effect) run "for (x in `{seq 1000}) kill -2 <the-pid>".
Do another ps.  It doesn't grow.

How do you reproduce it, Scott?

OK,
John.