Overview corruption (inn 2.3.3)

[Alex Kiernan]

Tommy van Leeuwen <tommy at support.nl> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 patricks at support.nl wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> > > > article <ugh3qugv2h2pmrp2mpsm0ntcf1vv2351qm at 4ax.com>
> > > > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > Looks like an incorrect offset:
> >
> > Oct 14 17:18:15 server nnrpd[29643]: server DEBUG: buff(2) is 01@ [47BC473363EF201A9E4A4B81225AEE28]^I1031064943~-~1031064018^I at 0305623133330000000000B660CC00000001@ [47BC. offset is 1556813401
> 
> It seems to have to do with the history dbz not storing or
> retrieving offsets > 2g. The history file itself is 6g and we normally
> don't have any problems with files >2g.
> 
> I think the number of bits for storing the offset is mixed up somewhere,
> but we don't know where. grephistory works fine so our guess is that
> makedbz also works fine and the only problem we're seeing this is in
> nnrpd.
> 

Is this the glibc pread() doesn't do 64 bit unless you use the right
voodoo options problem?

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Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc