Xchat-Gnome leaks filehandles

Bug #829009 reported by Patrick Domack
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
XChat-GNOME
Fix Released
Critical
xchat-gnome (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

xchat-gnome keeps crashing or just not working when open for a few weeks at a time cause it uses up all it's 1024 file handles.

This patch seems to fix the issue.

http://xchat.org/files/source/2.8/patches/xc284-fix-scrollbfdleak.diff

This is still an issue in the trunk version.

Changed in xchat-gnome:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Changed in xchat-gnome:
importance: Medium → Critical
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xchat-gnome - 1:0.30.0~git20100421.29cc76-1ubuntu5

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xchat-gnome (1:0.30.0~git20100421.29cc76-1ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/108-userlist-default-width.patch: make sure the userlist
    in the main window has a reasonable width by default. (LP: #828788)
  * debian/patches/109-use-scrollback-timestamps.patch: use actual
    timestamps when loading scrollback files. (LP: #834816)
  * debian/patches/110-fix-fd-leak.patch: fix a file handle leak.
    (LP: #829009)
 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:48:47 -0400

Changed in xchat-gnome (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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