Re: tin and huge article numbers

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Urs Janßen wrote:

> as mentioned in TODO, tin should use int_least64_t (or long long) for
> article numbers (IIRC we use negative numbers in several places as flags)
> and atoll (or atoq) and strtoll if int_least64_t/long long is
> available.
>
> if anyone has a lot of spare time this might be an interresting
> project (but I don't expect normal newsserver to reach the current
> limit within the next ~5 years; giganews currently seems to be the
> only server which exceeds that limit).

yes... (I have giganews on one of my shell accounts, and it's broken).
At the moment I've little time though :-(

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