-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, The one think that keeps popping up in my mind after reading your post: Is this really a mozilla bug? My answer: No, because try and font of the size 1666666px in gimp on the same system, the symptoms and the end effect is exactly the same here. System: RH 7.3 512 M memory 1024M Swap Xfs & XFree86 4.2.0 What happens is that XFS consumes huge amounts of ram, and finally bails out. So end of story for the fonts in X. As a result X is practicly useless. I can only guess what happens when you don't use XFS but Xserver based fontrendering, the X server consumes huge amounts of mem and cpu and bails out => server crash => Bye Bye X. The solution(s): (a) Fix every app to disallow font sizes bigger then <maxvalue> (b) Fix XFS to return an error code to the calling application when requested font size is greater then configured <maxvalue> Personally i would go for b. Just my $0.02, but is you disagree please let me know. On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Tom wrote: > Author > ====== > Tom Vogt <tomat_private> > http://web.lemuria.org/ > > Affected > ======== > Mozilla 1.0 and earlier > verified on Linux and Solaris, other Unixes most likely affected as well. > > Effect > ====== > System becomes unuseable or X windows crashes > (varies depending on system configuration) > > Description > =========== > When loading pages with a specially prepared (or erroneous) stylesheet, > mozilla and X windows (not restricted to XFree) exhibit any of two <<SNIP>> > > Example > ======= > Include a huge font size in your style sheet definition, e.g.: > body { font-size: 1666666px; } > - -- Met Vriendelijke groet/Yours Sincerely Stijn Jonker <SJCJonkerat_private> - -- Outlook Express is actually an incredibly effective virus distribution system which only pretends to be an email program. [by Eric Lee] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9BfWcH0P/oLuWBrcRAqB3AJkBudCe8ovF9+u5dPdFEYP/p1zUtgCbBc4I k/e0j6d1HDEQQb/XiWKnF3k= =TUcz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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