Bug 108

Summary:	Xft should hide maximum request length
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Component:	Lib/Xft	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:	2011BRB_Reviewed
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Owen Taylor 2003-08-28 09:59:46 UTC

If you feed a really, really long string into Xft, it will cause an 
error because the maximum request length will be violated. 
Xft should cover this up and automatically break long strings into
multiple pieces... while drawing really long strings is pathological
it's a lot of work for an app to check everywhere that a user didn't
give it such.

(Doesn't affect Pango because Pango limits requests to 1024 glyphs,
but it would affect a native user of the Xft API.)

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