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Re: libX11 overflow continued....

From: maeder () MATHCONSULT CH (Roman Maeder)
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 19:42:26 +0200


hedley () CS BRIS AC UK said:

$ a='gerbil'
$ for b in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do a=$a$a; done
$ echo XTerm.$a: x > /tmp/test
$ xrdb -merge /tmp/test
$ xterm

xterm should then segmentation fault/core dump...


On Solaris 2.5.1/OpenWindows 3.5.1, the "xrdb" line already crashes
the X server...

Roman Maeder