AW: Yet another leak in Xlib

[Walter Harms]

will sombody close the hole in the documentation ?
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Von: xorg-devel <xorg-devel-bounces at lists.x.org> im Auftrag von Po Lu <luangruo at yahoo.com>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2022 04:38
An: Thomas Dickey
Cc: xorg-devel at lists.x.org
Betreff: Re: Yet another leak in Xlib

Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> writes:

> looks okay reading the library code (src/xlibi18n/XDefaultIMIF.c, _CloseIM).
>
> xterm doesn't free that 'xim' value (and the XCloseIM manual page doesn't
> say who's responsible for that -- though it's possible that some other
> application developer read the library source code and is freeing it).

XCloseIM (in IMWrap.c) frees the XIM value itself after calling close to
deinitialize the input method.

So I think the patch should be fine, and I've been running it for a
while with no ill effect.  Could it be installed?

Thanks.