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Id: 94138
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Requestors: jjp [...] siteimprove.com
Cc: CHORNY [...] cpan.org
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  Mon Mar 24 06:40:41 2014 jjp [...] siteimprove.com - Ticket created
Subject: Memory leak in backticks and system
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:31:58 +0100
To: "bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Jesper Jørgen Persson <jjp [...] siteimprove.com>
Hi, Platform: Windows 7 64 bit osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.2, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.18.2.1 #1 Tue Jan 7 22:32:35 2014 x64' This little piece of perl code eats memory very fast: while(1){ `dir c:\\`; } Can anyone else reproduce this? Best Regards Jesper Persson
  Tue Apr 08 07:51:45 2014 CHORNY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Mar 24 06:40:41 2014, jjp@siteimprove.com wrote: Show quoted text
> Hi, > > Platform: > Windows 7 64 bit > osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.2, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread > uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.18.2.1 #1 Tue Jan 7 22:32:35 2014 x64' > > This little piece of perl code eats memory very fast: > while(1){ > `dir c:\\`; > } > > Can anyone else reproduce this?
Tries on 5.14.0 (32-bit) and 5.18.2 (32-bit, 64-bit int). Do not leak. Please check again and if it still leaks memory, report it with perlbug utility to perl5 porters. -- Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net
  Tue Apr 08 07:51:45 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Apr 08 07:51:59 2014 CHORNY [...] cpan.org - Cc CHORNY added
  Wed May 14 19:09:52 2014 shay [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Tue Apr 08 07:51:45 2014, CHORNY wrote: Show quoted text
> On Mon Mar 24 06:40:41 2014, jjp@siteimprove.com wrote:
> > Hi, > > > > Platform: > > Windows 7 64 bit > > osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.2, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread > > uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.18.2.1 #1 Tue Jan 7 22:32:35 2014 > > x64' > > > > This little piece of perl code eats memory very fast: > > while(1){ > > `dir c:\\`; > > } > > > > Can anyone else reproduce this?
> > Tries on 5.14.0 (32-bit) and 5.18.2 (32-bit, 64-bit int). Do not > leak. Please check again and if it still leaks memory, report it with > perlbug utility to perl5 porters.
It was originally reported on 5.18.2, and I'm surprised you didn't see the leak there. The bug was introduced in 5.17.1 and is now fixed in blead (ready for 5.20.0) and backported to maint-5.18 (ready for 5.18.3). See https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121676
  Wed Sep 17 10:54:12 2014 kmx [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'