On 04/20/2012 03:15 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.coopersm...@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.

Done.

Thanks!

-- Chase
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