From: Bernd Meyer (root@umibox.hanse.de)
Date: 05/27/93


From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Re: [KERNEL BUG?] GS reliably crashes Linux with the following input:
Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 01:35:50 GMT

joel@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:

>In article <1993May26.145644.166@excaliber.uucp> joel@excaliber.uucp (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>>
>>The following file was posted on one of the PostScript groups, and I
>>thought I'd give it a try, but it not only crashed Ghostscript, it
>>crashed my whole system! I couldn't even change VC's. I tried it
>>three times in a row, and got three crashes. I've never had any other
>>problems of this sort. I'm running GS version 2.6.0, kernel 0.99.8
>>with ipc and codepage patches on a Dell '386 with 387, at 25 MHz.
>>10Meg RAM and 16Meg swap.

>Sorry. I forgot to mention: Library version libc.so.4.3.3.

No problem here, getting it to an X-Screen.

Bernie

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