ports/107177: [PATCH] multimedia/totem: [SUMMARIZE CHANGES]

[Jeremy Messenger]

The following reply was made to PR ports/107177; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, lenzi at k1.com.br
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/107177: [PATCH] multimedia/totem: [SUMMARIZE CHANGES]
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:57:05 -0600

 On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:09:52 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke  
 <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
 
 > On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 00:00 +0000, Sergio Lenzi wrote:
 >>  You said the patch I send to totem will
 >>  introduce a memory leak....
 >>
 >>  It is obvously correct..  but without that, the totem
 >>  crashes. A look at the xine source code,
 >>  shows that the code does not calls garbage collector
 >>
 >>  When totem finally ends, (the memory is back to the operating system)
 >>  as there is no use of IPC  calls....
 >>
 >>  I use FreeBSD here installed in notebooks used by executives in
 >>  large companies, and those notebooks can never crash.
 >
 > I'm not saying this bug shouldn't be fixed.  What I am saying is let's
 > try and fix the REAL problem.  Your patch will most likely not be
 > accepted upstream.  We should strive to produce patches that we can push
 > up to the authors.  If you follow the debugging instructions at the link
 > I sent you, hopefully the root of this problem can be identified and
 > fixed.
 
 Hey Sergio, is there any process with this? If I don't hear anything from  
 you for about one to two weeks, then I shall close this pr. As in result  
 of you should be report it to xine team and no respone for weeks (almost a  
 month).
 
 Cheers,
 Mezz
 
 > Joe
 
 
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