FC3T2 Gecko Errors

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:22:31PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:18:04PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > I have, It is a set of tests I run on the metadata import, just to see
> > how it errors out. In every case I've seen it falls over with a raised
> > exception complaining about a broken file.
> > 
> > what happens when you run xmllint on the same file?
> 
> I don't have the one that blew it up any more. From the error the file
> appeared to have been truncated

  The XML file parsing is done with the xmlReader, it should operate
on constant memory whether the instance is well-formed or not, I have
never seen such a memory explosion behaviour from the parser itself,
or at least it was never reported. Maybe this is related to the way the
exception is handled at the Python level (libxml2-2.6.14 just released
slightly refactor libxml2 python exceptions classes but this looked safe
to me, and the thread started before I pushed that release so ...)

Daniel

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