Bug#541160: #541160 xterm: heap corruption when changing window size

2009-08-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Thomas, > Here's a fix for the positioning problem that I've been seeing (attached). thank you very much, the malloc corruption is gone now, too. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#541160: #541160 xterm: heap corruption when changing window size

2009-08-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Thomas, > This one is hard to reproduce (here). valgrind is not showing me any > problems as I resize the screen in various ways. > > There are several special cases in the resizing logic, depending on > resource-settings, as well as the amount of text that has been scrolled > off onto the sa

Bug#541160: xterm: heap corruption when changing window size

2009-08-11 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Package: xterm Version: 244-1 Severity: normal Hi, I just noticed that xterm doesn't like it very much to be resized: when I grab a window edge and make a circular motion (i.e. enlarge and shrink again in both dimensions), I usually get it to segfault within fractions of a second. Here are a few

Bug#292388: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 trouble

2008-02-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, > Are you using xdm? If yes, then that might be the corner case. AFAIK > other DMs are not setting a XDM-AUTHORIZATION-COOKIE[1], so noone sees > this problem[2]. yes, I know that only xdm users are affected. On the other hand I couldn't believe that its userbase should be so small, especiall

Bug#292388: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 trouble

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Brice, hi Joey, (simultaneously replying to both bugs because the problem in the underlying C libraries seems to be identical) I can provide a short bug summary, maybe it's helpful. For PF_UNIX connections with an XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key, the client (libx11/libxcb) constructs its 24-byte auth