Re: [hobbit] overflow in netbsd-meminfo.c

[Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina (at) wi.rr.com>]

Tracy Di Marco White wrote:
> Hobbit client 4.2.0 shows things like this on machines I have
> with 4GB of RAM:
>    Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
>  Physical     4294963639M 4294966523M          0%
>  Swap                  0M       4098M          0%
>
> With this patch it's better:
> --- client/netbsd-meminfo.c.orig	2008-11-12 19:25:30.000000000 -0600
> +++ client/netbsd-meminfo.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static char rcsid[] = "$Id: netbsd-memin
>  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  {
>  	int hw_physmem[] = { CTL_HW, HW_PHYSMEM };
> -	int physmem;
> +	unsigned long physmem;
>  
>  	int hw_pagesize[] = { CTL_HW, HW_PAGESIZE };
>  	int pagesize;
>
> Tracy J. Di Marco White
> Information Technology Services
> Iowa State University
>
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That appears to be a bug in netbsd.

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