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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 09:41 AM, Anton L=F6fgren wrote:
>
>> For the record, the following patch identically triggers the faults on m=
y
>> x86_64 Arch installation (where time_t normally is a quad word).
>>
>>
> Well, yes. You're explicitly casting it to a 32-bit value but it can't
> hold that much so it gets truncated.
Right. The point I was trying to make was merely that it indeed seems like
an integer overflow is causing the issue Ton Voon's experiencing. I'm sorry
for the noise if that had already established as fact.
> But CentOS 5 really shouldn't have
> 32-bit time_t, and especially not on 64-bit archs, so I don't know
> where it's getting its cast from.
>
Indeed - it'd be great to have some more information on what structs are
actually being used on his system. Along, possibly, with whichever build
flags were used to build his CentOS Nagios installation
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ri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:=
On 04/05/2013 09:41 AM, Anton L=F6fgren wrote:
For the record, the following patch identically triggers the faults on my
x86_64 Arch installation (where time_t normally is a quad word).
Well, yes. You're explicitly casting it to a 32-bit value but it can=
9;t
hold that much so it gets truncated. Right. The point I w=
as trying to make was merely that it indeed seems like an integer overflow =
is causing the issue Ton Voon's experiencing. I'm sorry for the noi=
se if that had already established as fact.
=A0But CentOS 5 really shouldn't h=
ave
32-bit time_t, and especially not on 64-bit archs, so I don't know
where it's getting its cast from.Indeed - it'=
d be great to have some more information on what structs are actually being=
used on his system. Along, possibly, with whichever build flags were used =
to build his CentOS Nagios installation
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