> It doesn't matter what facilities you use. If you get libtiff to open a > bad TIFF file, it may well dump core. TIFF has been one of the most > abused standards over the years. It used to be that hardly any FAX > software would read the TIFFs produced by another package - both because > they were too stupid to read perfectly good TIFFs, and because many of > the TIFFs were not good. I used to have endless trouble with libtiff > dumping core on those bad TIFFs. If you have had no trouble, your TIFFs > must have lead a sheltered life :-)
Steve, Again we see your reality not matching ours. ;-) In our reality Sam Leffler, the original author of HylaFAX, also authored an incredibly useful library called libtiff. I think this was while he was at Pixar, ... but at any rate libtiff was (and still is) very robust, and very unlikely to dump core at a moment's notice. Sam retired from the project and there have been a few quality control issues since then (very specific and limited in scope), but it's still fairly actively maintained and still 'good code' IMHO. TIFF and standards are not entirely synonymous, I agree. Blame Adobe, keepers of that spec for not disseminating it effectively. That's just politics though ... libtiff's stability is not linked to that. Have you reported the stability problems you're seeing to the libtiff crew? They have a bugzilla. -Darren -- Darren Nickerson Senior Sales & Support Engineer iFax Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.215.438.4638 +1.215.243.8335 (fax) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users