On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:09:16PM -0500, Rafal Boni wrote:
> PR's 19183, 18657, 20078 (should be closed as dup?) 
> Agreed that it should be fixed before release... I think the problem is
> slightly different than you describe it, but the end-result the same..
> Some child routines of tgetent (cgetstr, for example) allocate memory,
> which uses the libc malloc (even though bash/tcsh provide their own).
> So far, so good, but when the termcap code then *frees* that memory, 
> it does so using the bash/tcsh free(), which whiles and in some cases
> crashes the shell.

I tried to reproduce the problem with a simple test case, but failed.
Each time the local function is called, instead of the libc's one.
It seems to require some special conditions to happen ...

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