Re: [PATCH] ipt_hashlimit.c: expire's type overflow when showing tuples at bad moment.

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Samuel Jean wrote:

>On Tue, February 1, 2005 9:20 am, Patrick McHardy said:
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>>ipt_hashlimit already uses %ld. Samuel, what problem are you seeing
>>exactly ?
>>Is it negative times or wrapped times ?
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>
>I see wrapped time.
>
>I've tried making it print negative values, but seems I can't get
>unsigned operations to result in a signed value. Is that right ?
>
No. On my system va_arg (used by vsnprintf, used by seq_sprintf)
behaves strangely. From vsnprintf:

                else if (qualifier == 'l') {
                        num = va_arg(args, unsigned long);
                        if (flags & SIGN)
                                num = (signed long) num;

On my system (x86_64, gcc-3.3.5) va_arg returns 2^32-1 for -1, but it
should return 2^64-1. Are you seeing this problem on a 32bit or a 64bit
machine ?

Regards
Patrick