Re: Mysterious Xserver crash with fl_set_xyplot_data (fwd)

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 8 Mar 97 07:39:59 PST

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> Wait a minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just managed the crash running the basic,
> unmodified xyplotall.c demo. This is getting very frustrating!!!

Gosh. Sorry.

Seriously, I'd say your server has a bug. No user application should
be able to crash the server. If it does, it's not the user
application's fault -- it's the server's. It's just like a luser
application that crashes an OS. It's not the luser application that's
at fault -- it's the OS for not handling the exception properly.

What version of X are you running? On what platform (OS and
hardware)? Can you replicate the problem on another system? Can you
provide a self-contained minimal piece of example code that will allow
others to verify the problem?

spl

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