On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 09:51:42AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Thanks - while gitlab is our preferred method, when that's not possible, > we prefer using the xorg-devel mailing list (cc'ed) instead of trying to > guess which individual developer to contact. > > This bug has been previously reported, but no one has developed a good > fix yet - I don't know if many XKeysymToString callers keep references to > the returned pointers and would be broken if those pointers suddenly had a > different string or were invalid due to a realloc() call.
The manpage hints that callers should make a copy of the string,
since that "static area" implies that the library overwrites the
data for each call:
The returned string is in a static area and must not be modified. The
returned string is in the Host Portable Character Encoding. If the
specified KeySym is not defined, XKeysymToString returns a NULL.
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