Re: Possible zle_tricky.c memory leak & history typo

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Felix Rosencrantz wrote:

> There are several typos in the latest changes to the history completers.
> The last line of the completer looks like:
> 	(( $compstate[namtches] ))

This was only in _history, not in _h_c_w.  Several, you say,... what else?

> I don't think the "$" sign is needed, (_history_complete_word, also has this
> problem then.)  Also, the "am" need to be switched in "namtches".

The $ isn't really needed, but it doesn't do any harm either.

> I've been tight on time, otherwise I would send the patch or make the change
> myself. (if no one fixes this, i'll fix it when i get time.)
> 
> 
> Also, there was (and might still be) a memory leak in the version of
> zle_tricky.c from June 9th.  Below is the stack trace where the memory is
> allocated.  (The line numbers are from the june 10th version. Sorry not to use
> the current version).  I think the bug might be at line 607, where s is not
> freed before we return.
>                zalloc         [mem.c:453]
>                ztrdup         [mem.c:530]
>                get_comp_string [zle_tricky.c:1595]
>                docomplete     [zle_tricky.c:586]
>                expandorcomplete [zle_tricky.c:282]

s and qword. Whew. That must be one of the oldest bugs in the shell.

But how did you trigger that?

Bye
 Sven

Index: Completion/Core/_history
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Core/_history,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 _history
--- Completion/Core/_history	2000/06/22 08:42:36	1.4
+++ Completion/Core/_history	2000/06/26 08:18:18
@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@
   (( beg+=slice ))
 done
 
-(( $compstate[namtches] ))
+(( $compstate[nmatches] ))
Index: Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 zle_tricky.c
--- Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c	2000/06/19 09:55:32	1.16
+++ Src/Zle/zle_tricky.c	2000/06/26 08:18:19
@@ -604,6 +604,8 @@
 	    ll = strlen((char *) line);
 	    cs = ocs;
 	    unmetafy_line();
+	    zsfree(s);
+	    zsfree(qword);
 	    return 1;
 	}
 	ocs = cs;

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de