Problem with DHCLIENT vs 64-bit time_t

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> writes:
> So, there definitely is something wrong with the dhclient from
> the base system  But it might be that people having trouble with
> dhcp on 64-bTT sparc systems could use the port, at least for
> the short-term.

Only takes a few minutes of eyeballing to figure out that the problem
is most likely on line 424 of src/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/parse.c:

        convert_num (cfile, (unsigned char *)timep, val, 10, 32);

idiotically, the final argument to convert_num() is supposed to be the
size in bits of the number to store in the location pointed to by the
second argument.  The simplest fix is to use a temporary int32_t and
assign it to *timep later, since convert_num() can't deal with 64-bit
quantities.  See attached (untested) patch.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no

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