Re: pre112 - Y2K-like wraparound bug when creating/reading spool

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rudy Taraschi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

In this case, I do not think that what you saw is an
INT_MAX=2147483647 problem.  Rather I suspect that what you
encountered was a manifestation of a problem with the code that
allocates the internal missing article list.  I have since rewritten
that portion of the code to avoid the problem.

FWIW, news.motzarella.org now reports much smaller article numbers for
rec.motorcycles.harley.  The biggest numbers now come from the
rec.politics.guns group:

 rec.motorcycles.harley 0000005503 0000000227 y
 talk.politics.guns 2121825427 0000039583 y

The latest version in the repository is pre0.9.9-116.  I would not
attempt to read the guns group with anything less than that version.

Thanks,
--John

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