Quoting Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > From what I've seen, most segfaults with the last official > release > > > are due to bugs in the font renderers, or maybe just in the font > > > server. You could try explicitly putting font paths in the > XF86Config > > > > Not just in the font server -- a bad font server shouldn't crash a > good X > > server, should it? > > > > It always has in the past. Don't know much about the interface > between XFS and the server, but I know it's not robust.
Some time ago I made several patches for xfs, using an exploit as model, just connecting and throwing /dev/urandom on it until xfs closed the connection or crashed. Once it was running without problems for more than 3 days I gave up. I was planning to do something similar to the xserver, but always leave to later... This may be an interesting experiment, run a debuggable server under gdb and write a client that once connected, start sending /dev/urandom data. Iteration with the font server probably could be "tested" the same way. The only problem is that crashes cannot be exactly reproduced, but if there is a real bug, it normally shows itself again soon, but better do enough investigation to understand the crash condition without needing to repeat it. Paulo _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
