Bug#22024: marked as done (nn crashes when there are more than 32K active newsgroups)
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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 07:16:05 -0500
From: Franco Venturi <fventuri@mediaone.net>
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Subject: nn crashes when there are more than 32K active newsgroups
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Package: nn
Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01
nn crashes when there are more than 32K active newsgroups.
If there are more than 32K active newgroups, the variable:
master.number_of_groups in db.c becomes negative (it is declared
as a int16, hence it ranges from -32K to 32K-1).
My proposed patch is to change in file global.h line 33 the
definition of typedef group_number from int16 to int32 as follows:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** global.h.old Sat May 2 07:03:42 1998
--- global.h Sat May 2 07:05:35 1998
***************
*** 30,36 ****
#endif
typedef int32 article_number;
! typedef int16 group_number;
typedef uint32 time_stamp;
typedef int (* fct_type )();
--- 30,36 ----
#endif
typedef int32 article_number;
! typedef int32 group_number;
typedef uint32 time_stamp;
typedef int (* fct_type )();
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I did this change in my version of nn here and everything works fine
(so far).
I am using Debian 1.3.1.r6 with kernel version 2.0.33 and
libc version 5.4.33
Thanks for your help,
Franco Venturi
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