[tex-live] Pscryrliic Fonts for TeXLive

[Edd Barrett]

On 22/08/07, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> Edd Barrett writes:
> I don't know whether signal numbers are unique on different UNIX
> systems, but if this is the case, signal 11 means "segmentation fault".

Yup

>
> This should be fixed.  A program producing segmentation faults is very
> unsafe because it's then also very easy to produce stack overflows.
> This is a ***big*** security hole.

Isn't a seg fault the system detecting a buffer overflow and therefore
shutting the process down?

>
> Can you provide a minimal set of files which allows to re-produce the
> problem?

Yes, if you have a spare box for an OpenBSD install?

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Best Regards

Edd

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