ROX-Filer copy leak fixed
Forum member l0wt3ch has done some superb detective work, discovering and fixing a leak:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=168494#p168494
Quoting:
Dragging a couple of isos and a big folder full of files from a usb stick to an internal drive was causing ROX to eat all of my RAM, so I took a gdb dump and got the bot to examine it. Said there was at least one real memory leak in ROX-Filer, caused by a bug in filer.c/filer.h. So I asked if this bug was already present in the original woof-CE code (after uploading the files), and yes it was, the bug is in the woof-CE source. So I uploaded the files, and all of the patches, from EasyOS, and asked if the bug was there also. Answer was yes it is, but half of the problem is fixed in Easy.
I have applied the patch in woofQ2 and compiled ROX. The pet is
now 'rox-filer-20260418-excalibur.pet', which will be in the next
release of Easy.
Tags: easy