pre112 - Y2K-like wraparound bug when creating/reading spool
"Rudy Taraschi" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.slrn.user |
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Hi folks,
I've discovered a nasty little bug in pre112 when reading from a spool
created by slrnpull. This bug may have been here since Day 1. When
the article numbers get to INT_MAX (around 2.1 billion), they wrap,
and two things happen:
1) slrnpull will no longer fetch new articles
2) slrn will go into 100% CPU usage loop and never come out when
entering that group if 'read_active' is set
Here's the relevant lines in the slrnpull spool files (news server is
news.motzarella.org):
data/active:
rec.motorcycles.harley 2126026959 4700 y
.minmax
4700 2126026959
.servermin
227
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