Re: xv alternatives

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Carl Johnson wrote:
> I haven't tried imagemagick recently, but it's crashed my system
> enough times over the years that I avoid it whenever possible.  Unless
> it has changed recently, it doesn't check memory.  If it runs out of
> memory it will keep trying until the system daemons run out of memory
> and start crashing.  I compared it against xv, xloadimage, and gimp,
> and all of the others would abort an operation and give a warning when
> they ran out of memory.  Of course, if you have *lots* of memory, then
> it's probably safe enough.

This is what resource limits are for.

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