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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:00:25 -0500
From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: Bug in sysrendezvous?
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From: "G. David Butler" <gdb@dbSystems.com>
>From: Amos Shapir <amos@cs.huji.ac.il>
>Date: 	Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:59:36 -0400
>>
>>The "tag" operand of rendezvous is defined as ulong; but in the
>>function sysrendezvous (in sysproc.c), it's copied into an int, which
>>is used as an index in a table by the REND macro.  If I'm mistaken
>>correctly, this means that if the tag is negative, the resulting
>>pointer would point *outside* the table!
>>

[snip]

>#define REND(p,s) ((p)->rendhash[(ulong)(s)%RENDHASH])

Well, I jumped the gun here.  The fix was posted long ago with
a declaration change in sysrendezvous() to a ulong.

Sorry for the rehash :-).