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Bug 780663 - Doesn't properly release VTE
Doesn't properly release VTE
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-03-28 19:23 UTC by Egmont Koblinger
Modified: 2017-03-28 21:34 UTC
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Description Egmont Koblinger 2017-03-28 19:23:50 UTC 
Upon closing a terminal (tab or window), _vte_ring_fini() is not called, and the tmp files (stream data) are not released.

g-t and ./src/testvte suffer from this bug, ./bindings/vala/vte-2.91 releases properly.

[I happened to discover this while working on bug 779734 - there the free() stuff in wip4 is broken, yet only crashes with the vala app.]
Comment 1 Egmont Koblinger 2017-03-28 19:34:09 UTC 
Recently Terminator and Tilix (formerly known as Terminix) had such an issue too:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1645500
https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/589