[hobbit] overflow in netbsd-meminfo.c

[Rich Smrcina]

Tracy Di Marco White wrote:
>> That appears to be a bug in netbsd.
> 
> This is what it appears as in meminfo for one of my 4GB machines:
> [meminfo]
> Total:-773
> Free:2884
> Swaptotal:4098
> Swapused:0
> 
> Since freebsd-meminfo.c seems to be using unsigned long in the same
> place I modified it, I'm not sure it's a bug only in NetBSD.
> 

The display is a bug, Hobbit's interpretation and use of it is an artifact of the bug.

If netbsd doesn't have a fix for this problem, you're patch is the right solution.
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