Description Eric Bodden 2006-11-03 00:53:22 EST

I am experiencing the following problem:

In Eclipse, I was debugging a Java application and accidentally printing a collection to stdout (instead of just its size). This lead to a huge output to the Eclipse Console view - apparently too big for SWT to handle. This reproducibly crashed the X-server. This is under Ubuntu and Eclipse 3.2.0.

I also tried the IBM JVM instead of the Sun JVM and this still lead to the same problem. Hence, I suspect it's some issue (buffer overflow?) in the native code of SWT. I am not sure if this can be used maliciously, but in any way, it's a little worrying.