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Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Schroeter)
Tue Jul 28 14:19:49 1998

Mail-Followup-To: Warner Losh <imp@VILLAGE.ORG>, BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Date: 	Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:03:44 +0200
Reply-To: Felix Schroeter <felix@SCHLUND.DE>
From: Felix Schroeter <felix@SCHLUND.DE>
X-To:         Warner Losh <imp@VILLAGE.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <199807272138.PAA08789@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on
              Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 03:38:24PM -0600

Hello!

On 07/27, Warner Losh wrote:
> [...]
>      [EINVAL]      The sum of the iov_len values in the iov array
>                    overflowed a 32-bit integer.

Shouldn't the internal sum better be 64-bit? After all, FFS is able
to do files > 2^32 bytes...

Regards, Felix.

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