Subject: Re: what's wrong with this picture (:-))
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 06/11/1997 03:01:40
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 01:15:44 -0400 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > This is likely a very simple bug caused by treating a quad as though
 > it were a long. You end up with overflow.
 > 
 > Perry
 > 
 > > Matthew Jacob sez:
 > > /*
 > >  * mother.nas.nasa.gov > root df 

Not likely, since sizeof(quad_t) == sizeof(long) on that machine (an
AlphaServer 8200).  However, I'm not ruling out some silly rollover...
just pointing out that it's probably not long vs. quad in this case :-)

 > >  * /dev/sd6d     68994798        2 -20354288    -0%    /mnt
 > >  */

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