From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4EA7BBE9.4020107@cs.ucla.edu> <4EA8FB27.7090700@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319704171 13501 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 08:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9874@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 10:29:23 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 1RJLL0-0001sv-LN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLL0-0001Vv-5E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLKx-0001Va-7T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLKs-0002Qe-SM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43623) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLKs-0002QY-Qm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLMb-0000Hh-Gz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:31:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andreas Schwab Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:31:01 +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: pending patch Original-Received: via spool by 9874-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9874.13197042071030 (code B ref 9874); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:31:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9874) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Oct 2011 08:30:07 +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 1RJLLh-0000GX-Sg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLLe-0000Fb-JS for 9874@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D291853BAC; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981CB1C0006E; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xaUKS1MLE9ml; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hase.home (ppp-93-104-150-10.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.150.10]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I was born in a Hostess Cupcake factory before the sexual revolution! In-Reply-To: <4EA8FB27.7090700@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:33:11 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:31:01 -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:53193 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > * File descriptors are small ints on platforms I regularly use, > but POSIX doesn't guarantee this assumption. Every function returning a new file descriptor returns the smallest available one, so if you want to get a very big one you have to have odles of open files already (unless you force a particular descriptor with dup2, which Emacs doesn't). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."