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Fix the notorious log_reader plugin crash. It turns out that the file contents being freed wasn't the original pointer and, naturally, that doesn't work. There is some additional cleanup and prevention of unnecessary allocations. Fixes #3461, #1249.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

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doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.