The following reply was made to PR bin/29226; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/29226: /etc/daily pipes >32bit integers from netstat to awk, which can't deal with them
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:46:58 +0100

 On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:17:00AM +0000, arto@selonen.org wrote:
 
 > (1) Teach awk 64bit number handling, including quad conversions.
 
 Shell utilities seem a bad place to instill knowledge of explicit
 integer size conversions.
 
 > (1) Replace awk in /etc/daily with something that can deal with
 >     large numbers
 
 I wouldn't mind awk(1) using intmax_t internally; however, there is
 a showstopper in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 section 1.7.2:
 
 	"Integer variables and constants, including the values of
 	 operands and option-arguments, used by the standard
 	 utilities [...] shall be implemented as equivalent to
 	 the ISO C standard _signed long_ data type [...]"
 
 Having an alternate, conforming version in, say, /usr/posix/bin and
 adjusting _CS_PATH accordingly might do the trick for this one (and
 a couple of similar issues).
 
 
 - Klaus