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ROX-Filer minimal leak fix

April 24, 2026 — BarryK

Posted about ROX back-forward buttons and crashing:

However, going back to the start, there was just one thing, a fix for a memory leak. I have now applied only this small patch to fix just this leak:

diff -Naur ROX-FilerORIG/src/filer.c ROX-Filer/src/filer.c
--- ROX-FilerORIG/src/filer.c 2026-04-22 19:39:39.120011090 +0800
+++ ROX-Filer/src/filer.c 2026-04-24 07:44:30.890035201 +0800
@@ -2001,6 +2001,7 @@
gtk_widget_destroy(filer_window->window);
}
}
+ g_free(real);
}

/* Like minibuffer_show(), except that:

See also forum discussion:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=168970#p168970

So this is likely to be the one in next release of EasyOS.     

Tags: easy