From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5814 invoked from network); 4 Dec 1996 21:29:48 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Dec 1996 21:29:48 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17956; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:12:27 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:12:27 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199612042113.WAA04893@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: allocation bug In-Reply-To: <199612041101.MAA20376@hydra.ifh.de> from Peter Stephenson at "Dec 4, 96 12:01:04 pm" To: pws@ifh.de (Peter Stephenson) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:13:08 +0100 (MET) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL27 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"HFuIW3.0.VO4.xaUfo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2537 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Peter Stephenson wrote: > This comes from the REPORTTIME code. Presumably it showed up here > because the job exited and caused a SIGCHLD while zle was active. > Maybe there's more possible nastiness in code that can get called from > the signal handler? Yes, you get the same when the shell reads TMOUT. There is a potentional memory leak when the requested variable is an array. Perhaps it would be better to put HEAPALLOC into getstrvalue or to the place where arrays are joined. Zoltan