Bug report: memory leak in python 1.5.2

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Greg McFarlane wrote:

> Environment: Solaris 2.5.1, gcc
> 
> The following script chews up cycles (as expected) as well as memory
> (megabytes every few seconds).
> 
> Does anyone know why?
> 
> ======================================================================
> import os
> while 1:
>   os.environ['FOO'] = 'BAR'
> ======================================================================

No, but just to keep you sane:
Mine does exactly the same,

Python:
Python 1.5.2 (#1, May 23 1999, 07:05:44)  [GCC 2.8.1] on sunos4
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam

uname -a:
SunOS sunset 4.1.4 9 sun4m

(I'll check it later on my linux box)
--
Moshe Zadka <mzadka at geocities.com>. 
QOTD: My own exit is more likely to be horizontal then perpendicular.