GNU bug report logs - #20220
severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1

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Message #65 received at 20220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dancol <at> dancol.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#20220: severe memory leak on emacs 24.4.1
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:24:18 +0300

> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:16:46 -0500
> From: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 20220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> You are correct; the problem only happens with a file:/// url. The following
> executes without problem and emacs memory stays constant:
> (dotimes (i 100) (w32-shell-execute "open" "c:/users/mario/desktop/x.html"))
> With a file:/// url it triggers the bug:
> (dotimes (i 100) (w32-shell-execute "open"
> "file:///c:/users/mario/desktop/x.html"))

Thanks, that's good to know.

So I think the solution is to change w32-shell-execute to convert
file:/// URLs into the normal file-name format internally, and use
that in the call to ShellExecute.

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