[hobbit] Hobbit 4.2 - bb2 ack list has strange date -bug, patch

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Tue Sep 30 14:28:56 CEST 2008


In <48C093A2.30000 at doublesparks.net> Alan Sparks <asparks at doublesparks.net> writes:

>This turns out to be a bug in Hobbit on x86_64.  Problem appears to be
>that a time value read from the acknowledge.log by bbgen is read into a
>shorter integer than is allocated as a time_t value (and that allocation
>is not initialized)... so sometimes random bits are included, and skew
>the time way into the future.

>I solved the problem with the following patch:

Thanks, bug reports that include patches are the best kind! Patch
applied.


Regards,
Henrik



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