Re: [Lynx-dev] Year 2038 problem in handling cookie date

[Thorsten Glaser]

address@hidden dixit:

>Lynx crashes when accessing the site with 32-bit system.
>I wrote an ad-hoc patch to prevent the crash.

There are more bugs, for example:

  996         if ((long) Start < 0)

This will cause truncation, already on MirBSD/i386 and
Linux/x32, which are ILP32 and use 64-bit time_t.

Also, by now, most OpenBSD and NetBSD® platforms, I think.

bye,
//mirabilos
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