From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:33:11 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4EA8FB27.7090700@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4EA7BBE9.4020107@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319697269 1809 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 06:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9874@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 08:34:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJXg-0003mO-Kk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:34:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJXf-0007Pa-Iv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJXd-0007PU-4G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:34:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJXc-0007qI-62 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:34:17 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJXc-0007qC-4Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJZK-0005Q0-8p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9874 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 9874-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9874.131969730720764 (code B ref 9874); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9874) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Oct 2011 06:35:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJYQ-0005Oq-Go for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJYM-0005OI-Ti for 9874@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E238739E800A; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:33:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9a7s1DHKH0Wu; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 873BC39E8007; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:33:09 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:36:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:53190 Archived-At: On 10/26/11 07:09, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Thank you very much You're welcome. > we're too far in the release process for such large patches OK, I'll hold off until after the release. To follow up on two of the other comments: * The problem with (signal-process 4294967295 1) also occurred with (signal-process -1 1), so it's true that that spectacular failure wasn't all Emacs's fault. (I have since upgraded to Fedora 15 and have been too chicken to try out the test case in my new environment....) * File descriptors are small ints on platforms I regularly use, but POSIX doesn't guarantee this assumption. Removing the assumption added two lines of code. It's not a big deal either way.