[Libguestfs] [PATCH] 'len' should be an unsigned 32 bit int.

[Jim Meyering]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>From 4d86861feb312fda6d366e2bd067bcc58470c1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Richard Jones <rjones at trick.home.annexia.org>
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:49:06 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 2/5] 'len' should be an unsigned 32 bit int.
>
> This only happened to work by accident before because 'unsigned len'
> happens to be 32 bit on all platforms we support.
> ---
>  daemon/proto.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/daemon/proto.c b/daemon/proto.c
> index d935ded..431f219 100644
> --- a/daemon/proto.c
> +++ b/daemon/proto.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ main_loop (int _sock)
>    XDR xdr;
>    char *buf;
>    char lenbuf[4];
> -  unsigned len;
> +  uint32_t len;

Good one.  ACK
It'd be good to find any others like that, and
to add automatic syntax-style check.

I think it'd be pretty easy to do with coccinelle.
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/