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List:       taglib-devel
Subject:    Re: Recent taglib memleak introduced in 9b995544e
From:       Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-10-24 15:58:42
Message-ID: 2A3B26A2-7E53-4695-B720-FE0A9B1476D2 () kde ! org
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I suspect what you're seeing is that the indexer is using the old version of TagLib, \
and the file introduced specifically is testing for that bug.  I don't think that's \
really a bug of the TagLib developer sources.

-Scott

> On Oct 24, 2016, at 13:56, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava@kde.org> wrote:
> 
> please cc to me as I'm not on the mailing-list.
> 
> I'm not sure if this bug is here for a longer time, but a binary file introduced in \
> 9b995544e ( toc_many_children.mp3 ) causes taglib to eat my whole memory ( 20gbs ) \
> and my system is unresponsive.  
> I know that this file is used only for testing purposes but as soon as I checked \
> out the repository, baloo tried to index it and in the index it uses taglib to find \
> out about mp3 information, and poof.  
> I tried to run the tests files and they run fine 
> vlc also crashes trying to open the file (also using taglib)
> 
> Tomaz


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