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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:11:08 -0500 (EST)
From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
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Subject: bin/17681: XDR does not handle 64bit data types correctly
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>Number:         17681
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       XDR does not handle 64bit data types correctly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 29 23:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David E. Cross
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
		 Department of Computer Science Lab
>Environment:
Mixed big endian/little endian machines attempting to communicate.

>Description:
	The XDR routines for 64bit data types do not propperly byte-swap 
        the data.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Write an NFSv4 Locking implimentation.  Submit it for public testing, 
 get back many error reports.

>Fix:
 Apply the patch derived from NetBSD which is available at

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/xdr.diff

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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