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ImageMagick: hang when opening text (racket) files with .art extension

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34346 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Subject: bug#34346: 26.1; Big hang when opening text (racket) files with .art extension (image-mode)
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:52:56 +0100

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:44:21 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
>> Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 34346 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:04:58 +0100
>> 
>> I think there is a misunderstanding (probably due to my initial post and the
>> poor title).  The issue, I  believe, is with image-mode: when it is fed random
>> bytes (e.g. a text buffer) it goes berserk.  This is probably a bug in
>> image-mode.
>
> Does image-mode goes berserk, or does ImageMagick do it?  AFAIU, we
> just hand the file to the appropriate image library for processing.

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:59:14 +0100 Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> Could be.  Any hint on how I could test that more specifically?

Try opening the file from the shell with the 'display' command (and have
another shell ready to kill that process).

Steve Berman

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