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Created January 22, 2014 03:45
This is a patch (with commentary) that fixes a memory leak in 24.3 for OSX Mavericks (10.9) users who experience excessive resource consumption by distnoted.
From 8ab91751069e391a95151c6716a546b1732ade92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JP <twitter:canoeberry>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:58:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] partial memleak fix
This patch was created by JP (twitter: @canoeberry) based on a memleak fix by Dirk (emacs committer) below:
https://github.com/mirrors/emacs/commit/57ae6509a3b6a274f89b9caea0284c6156470625
This memory leak is fixed in the trunk as of now and will be in the next official release: 24.4.