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bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues |
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Date: |
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> * File descriptors are small ints on platforms I regularly use,
> but POSIX doesn't guarantee this assumption.
Every function returning a new file descriptor returns the smallest
available one, so if you want to get a very big one you have to have
odles of open files already (unless you force a particular descriptor
with dup2, which Emacs doesn't).
Andreas.
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