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Re: 64-bit issue with checksumming.
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: 64-bit issue with checksumming. |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:36:51 +0200 |
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Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
> onsdag den 8 augusti 2012 klockan 15:50 skrev Simon Josefsson detta:
>> Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Hello there,
>> >
>> > I have found a discrepancy between 32-bit Wheezy and
>> > 64-bit Squeeze systems.
>>
>> Interesting, are you able to reproduce this in some easy way? Could
>> this be related to this problem:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670316
>>
>> Maybe you could try that patch and see if it solves your problem.
>
> The cause was to be found entirely within GNU Inetutils.
> It was mended in commit 7129ba40. It boiled down to the
> fact that the original author of the libshishi support in
> "src/rshd.c", "src/rlogind.c", and "libinetutils/shishi.c"
> passed integer types "int outlen" where "size_t outlen"
> was in use by libshishi. On 64-bit systems these are not
> interchangeable, so communication failed.
>
> Case is closed as fas as I know.
Great, thank you for tracking this down!
/Simon