[PATCH] Xext: "xauth generate" with large timeout crashes Xorg #27134 .
Keith Packard
keithp at keithp.com
Thu Apr 15 10:48:22 PDT 2010
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:13:19 +0530, Arvind Umrao <Arvind.Umrao at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Second thought, after some more testing. It seems your fixes are not
> better than mine. When epoch time is GetTimeInMillis() -
> (CARD32)(MAXINT), ie Sun Jan 10 2038 11:09:28 GMT+0530 (IST), security
> authorization will expire with timeout reset to Zero.
Good testing. I'd suggest just reducing the timeout by a second to make the
initial timeout be greater than zero which should make the recomputed
timeout mechanism work.
> I thing we should start using CARD64 for storing millisecs. What you
> suggest?
I don't think this is really necessary.
--
keith.packard at intel.com
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