[PATCH libXau] Free XauFileName() static buffer at exit

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 04/20/12 03:11 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 04/20/2012 03:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 04/20/12 02:56 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
>>> On 04/20/2012 02:35 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>> On 04/20/12 02:18 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
>>>>> XauFileName() may allocate and return a static buffer. The only
>>>>> way to ensure it is freed is to deallocate it when the program exits.
>>>>
>>>> ...at which point it's automatically freed.   Is this just trying to
>>>> silence some sort of memory leak checking?
>>>
>>> Yes. I'm running valgrind and trying to solve leaks. I realize this is
>>> not a "real" issue, but it's essentially like a compiler warning.
>>> Reducing warnings and errors helps highlight where there are real problems.
>>
>> Right, just trying to make sure that I understood what problem you were
>> trying to solve (quieting false positives so real problems are easier to
>> find), and the patch seems to be a reasonable way to do that, so:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> 
> So libXau is listed as unmaintained:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg-docs/tree/MAINTAINERS#n176
> 
> but I see you have been applying patches. Will you be picking this up? I
> can apply it, too. Either way.

You can go ahead and push directly.   I tend to worry more about picking up
patches from people without direct git write access.

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