> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 17:04:03 -0500, Norman Ramsey wrote: > > When run on this PDF file, pstotext gets through about 349 pages and then > > hangs, chewing up unlimited CPU. > > This is an issue with the ghostscript binary used by pstotext, not with > pstotext itself. This is fixed in unstable's version of ghostscript. Refer > to http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=ghostscript for details as > to why this fixed version is not in testing yet.
I'm unsurprised that the bug is in the ghostscript binary, and I'm pleased it's been fixed. I don't have enough experience to understand the explanation of why it hasn't hit testing, but it's enough to know I can download it from unstable. However, I do want to make sure bug 459611 is not dropped. I'm sure this won't be the last infinite-loop bug in ghostscript, and as a proper matter of defensive programming, index++ and swish++ should protect themselves against such infinite loops---especially since these processes are run periodically as part of other packages (dhelp) and may otherwise take over a user's machine in a most unkind manner. Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
