Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107264: shr.el (shr-rescale-image): Allow viewing large images.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> The whole purpose of max-image-size was to avoid crashes and
> denial-of-service, for example when viewing incorrectly-labeled images.
> So it's especially important for SHR which will display images
> downloaded from anywhere.

shr.el (if compiled with imagemagick support) will (by default) rescale
the images down.  But to do that, it goes through the display engine,
anyway, so it's an issue anyway.

But what crashes and denials of service does `create-image' on a large
image result in?

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