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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kded crashes my system (X)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-06-28 8:35:54
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"Dirk A. Mueller" wrote:
> 
> David Faure <david.faure@insa-lyon.fr> wrote:
> 
> > under Windows. What about handling errors better in the registry
> > loading, and if anything fails, skip the loading and fall back on
> > reading the ascii files (which we do anyway - if modification time
> > differs) ?
> 
> well, it's not easy to do proper error checking. any value might be
> wrong. i.e. sometimes the regreader wants to allocate 1GB of memory
> or more, which fails here for some reason ;)

Adding a checksum might catch such corruption before you start to
allocate 1Gb.

Cheers,
Waldo
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