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X server should unlimit stacksize

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 6 01:57:04 1991

To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 91 01:57:16 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>


Chris Vanharen and I found a way to crash the 7.3 VAX X server by resizing
the console program.  The console tried to fill a region 32k pixels high,
and the X server was unable to get enough space with alloca().  The VAX and
RT X servers should be started with the "-ls" option.

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