Subject: Re: bin/29226: /etc/daily pipes >32bit integers from netstat to awk, which can't deal with them
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/04/2005 13:53:01
The following reply was made to PR bin/29226; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/29226: /etc/daily pipes >32bit integers from netstat to awk, which can't deal with them
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:46:58 +0100
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:17:00AM +0000, arto@selonen.org wrote:
> (1) Teach awk 64bit number handling, including quad conversions.
Shell utilities seem a bad place to instill knowledge of explicit
integer size conversions.
> (1) Replace awk in /etc/daily with something that can deal with
> large numbers
I wouldn't mind awk(1) using intmax_t internally; however, there is
a showstopper in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 section 1.7.2:
"Integer variables and constants, including the values of
operands and option-arguments, used by the standard
utilities [...] shall be implemented as equivalent to
the ISO C standard _signed long_ data type [...]"
Having an alternate, conforming version in, say, /usr/posix/bin and
adjusting _CS_PATH accordingly might do the trick for this one (and
a couple of similar issues).
- Klaus