Re: ezmlm and amd64

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:43:30 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.ezmlm
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:41:51PM +0200, Simone Lazzaris wrote:
> I've hit the 32/64 bit bug mentioned last august: I've got a mixed 
> environment, in which some server are 32 bit i386 and some are x86_64.
> 
> The hash generated in subhash.c is different, so some people are not 
> recognised as subscribed, randomly (depending on which server is handling the 
> request).
> 
> In my (humble) opinion, the correct behaviour is to fix the code, forcing to 
> always use 32 bit hash, which is the "historically correct" value.

This would be a good idea, at least for your environment, but will cause
another problem for other systems.  Upon upgrading to a "fixed" version,
64-bit systems will be unable to unsubscribe addresses properly.
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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>                http://untroubled.org/
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