[Bf-committers] Quicktime & autoconf

[Douglas Toltzman]

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

> From: Kester Maddock <Christopher.Maddock.1@uni.massey.ac.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Quicktime & autoconf
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 00:43:05 +1200
> 
> Hi Kester,
> 
> > Meino,
> > 
> > Looks like you are in big trouble. :(
> 
>   ...may be the blender sourcerer are in trouble here...
> 

It's more likely that a feature or a bug in blender is exploiting a
serious bug in the X-server.  The X-server has root privilege and directly
controls hardware (ring 0?) which would enable it to crash the system.  I
doubt it's a kernel bug.  You said you are running a special version of
XFree86, you might check for patches for that.  There is no way Blender
can crash your system without help from X.  There is nothing the kernel
can do to protect your from a failing device driver.  Would you consider a
different, better supported video card??? :)

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