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- From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: FLAME, FLAME ON X!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.002931.6223@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 00:29:31 GMT
- References: <1683@igd.fhg.de>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1683@igd.fhg.de> baumann@igd.fhg.de (Peter Baumann) writes:
- >This is a sad story told by a frustrated user of some quite common
- >one-letter software.
- > [...]
- >Short after that, a colleague of the bad-luck guy occasionally
- >remarked, "Did you know that the X windows server never releases
- >memory space once acquired for image display? Each new image loaded
- >makes the X server address space grow until there's no more available."
- >And added, "This is a well-known bug of X". Well-known. Well...
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- A well-known bug of X? More accurately, it's a well-known "feature" of
- UNIX?
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- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov
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- Not authorized, in any way, shape, or form, to speak for anyone.
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