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Re: [OT] pgp_timeout must be short (was: Re: [OT] You Don't Want To Read This (was: Re: How to disable passphrase prompt))



On  2-Jan-2004 11:28 David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
| On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
| > * Asif Iqbal <iqbala@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-01-02 08:23 -0500]:
| 
| > > Actually on my Sun Enterprise 420R (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz) the
| > > highest I can do is 2**15-1 (32767) secs which is only 9 hours
| > 
| > Same here with FreeBSD 4.9 (with 32 bit ints), bigger values give
| > me an 'illegal value'.
| 
| Should I hazard a guess, that Mutt uses only a short, then?  That can
| be a little bit of a problem, I'd say, eh?
| 
|  - Dave
| 
| BTW - I just checked here as well (i686/GNU/Linux2.4), and it hits the
| same cap too.  Mutt must use shorts, then. . .

  It seems like there's enough interest in this that I should post
  a patch I've been using for nearly a year now.  The patch adds
  general support for longs, makes pgp_timeout a long.

    http://www.mutt.ca/patches/patch-1.5.5.dw.pgp-timeout.1
--
-dale

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