[Nagiosplug-devel] Fwd: Coreutils bug?

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 10/12/07 10:04 AM, Ton Voon wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> Saw this commit. I find it hard to believe that gnulib is wrong. Is  
> this how df.c works in coreutils? Maybe I missed something when I was  
> duplicating the df code.

When gnulib's variable is signed and available free space returns an
insanely high number, I call it a bug (it should return a negative
number which is impossible due to the unsigned nature of the variable).
I tried assigning it to a signed int of the same size and it didn't
change, so looks like the wraparound happens on the signed portion of
the integer!

I haven't looked at coreutils and *BSD use their own BSD-licensed df. I
think considering our limited development time there's more productive
things to do for now :)

> Alternatively, maybe we should do a sync with gnulib? Any volunteers?  
> I'm happy to go through it with someone and we can put an entry in  
> nagiosplugins.org while we do it.

If there are clear and simple path to it I could give it a shot after
next release...

Thomas
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