On Friday 16 February 2007 12:47, Dave Howorth wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 08:25 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: <snip>
> There's obviously a problem with FOSS software that Windows doesn't > suffer from. Corporate bloat? What problem would that be, exactly? Actually, I didn't use Wintendo to prove it better/worse, just to check libraries. I was curious if the same XXL .png file would load on one OS the same as the other. > It's probably related to X - I guess it's a question of > knowing the correct idiom to use with one or other of the X libraries, > since gimp et al handle things correctly. It would be interesting to > know which libraries are used by the failing applications but perhaps > not by gimp, gv and krita. Or maybe it's just a particular way of > calling libraries. > > What surprises me is that this bug has apparently been recorded for > nearly a year at a minimum, while it causes several applications to > crash and is easily reproducible. It makes Linux look bad in comparison > to Windows but it hasn't been solved! Not really. I doubt too many people run into such a monstorous .png file. That is - after all - really large, and may simply be too big for some libraries to handle. By comparison to a buffer overflow exploit, I'm sure it is a lesser priority. > > A minor aspect that I find interesting is that nobody seems to know of > any technique to validate PNG image files. I'm amazed about that. > > BTW, hope you're into your weekend now, as I am here. Chinese New Year > in 27.2 hours! Gung Hay Fat Choy! -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
