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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 04:17:20 +0400
From: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@ratmir.ru>
To: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>
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Subject: Re: /bin/sh and BIG NUMBERS
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:34:53PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >> alexs@snark> /bin/sh -c 'echo $((10000000000-1))'
> Not all shells have that problem.  I'm using the real KSH from AT&T
> via the ports.  It's returns 999999999 quite nicely :-)

Thanks, and sure I know it. I've check different shells before patching
/bin/sh.

That's not enough that there are shells which do not suffer from the
problem described above. The REAL problem is that NOW we have 64-bit
counters in ipfw, we have lots-of-gigs harddrives and so on. And some
people continue to use OWN OLD scripts (i.e. for system maintenance)
which will NOW silently produce just wrong results. That's why I suggest
to fix /bin/sh.

								SY, Alex