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From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: read/write colorcells problem
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Date: 14 Mar 91 14:11:44 GMT
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    If I
    create a new virtual colormap with XCopyColrormapAndFree after a failure 
    of XAllocColorCells, one of the extra allocation requests returns a
    bad pixel value (e.g. 256) that is out of range of the colormap.

You've found a nice server bug.