[775] in Athena Bugs
VaxStation ][ X Server bug v.6.0C
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 2 15:54:42 1988
From: <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 88 15:53:45 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
This is a somewhat low-priority bug, I think.
I was attempting to draw a circle using XDrawArc, with the linewidth
proportional to the diameter of the circle. However, because of poor
sanity checking my program ended up setting the linewidth to a
negative number.
The X server hung for about fifteen seconds, then crashed completely.
Now, I realize that I shouldn't be sending the X server negative
linewidths in my GC's, but then again, the server should have the
sanity checking necessary to catch such mistakes.
While I don't think you'll need the core file to figure out the
problem, I have moved it from / on this workstation (oliver.mit.edu)
to /usr/tmp/core.X. If you want, you can pick it up from there, or
you can give me the name of a directory into which I can copy it.
jik
