x11-utils: xprop -spy leaks memory

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/15/15 09:55 AM, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 02:38:39AM +0100, DesDZ wrote:
>> There seems to be a memory leak in the xprop tool, when using the -spy
>> option. Pulseaudio uses that option to know when the X session ends, as
>> an example. On my (long-running) X session, xprop memory usage was
>> steadily growing until using 1.5G...
>>
>> You'll find a patch as an attachment, it's not mine and I couldn't test
>> it, I found it at:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.pulseaudio/4456
>>
>> Here is the related Debian Bug:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765828
>>
>> Thanks for your hard work...
>
> Ping? This still seems to be a problem. :-(

It would help if it was submitted by someone who had written or tested the
patch, otherwise, you're relying on someone else to have time to do so, and
that may take years given how few people work on the core X.Org applications
these days.

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