64-bit bugs in new ovdb

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Oct 5 20:36:35 UTC 2000


Heath Kehoe <heath.kehoe at intermec.com> writes:

> Besides, the NNTP specs dictate that the maximum allowed article number
> is 2^32-1.  I was thinking maybe we could make ARTNUM a u_int32; but
> that would break existing INN installations on 64-bit systems (where
> structs stored in files have ARTNUM-sized members).

Ouch.  *sigh*  Hadn't thought about that.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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