Around 17 o'clock on Nov 2, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Attached is a test case for the client library that always exits on my
> machine. Sometimes it gets a SIGPIPE, sometimes it gets a real X error
> but most of the time that it does get a real X error it has a random
> request_code.
>
> Yes, what the code does is insane ( huge strings like this don't usually
> happen in real life ) but it's still something that should probably be
> fixed.
I see several possible "fixes":
1) Require that applications bounds check their text requests
2) Make Xlib check and *truncate* the request (not reasonable)
3) Use BIG-REQUESTS (but doesn't solve problem).
Which would you like to use?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc.
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