Re: findutils locate bug fix

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:19:41AM +0100, John Lazenbatt wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I'm contacting you as maintainer of the GNU findutils package.
> 
> I found a bug in findutils locate on Solaris 8. It was reading back 
> negative 16-bit shorts as positive 32-bit ints. Here's the original code 
> from findutils-4.1/locate/locate.c, starting at line 79:


I have logged this bug via Savannah; you can see the bug database
entry at
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=9923