DevPhoronixabout 2 hours ago
Linux Developers Propose Retiring BSD-Compress
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Linux developer Qingfang Deng proposes removing the BSD-Compress compression support from the Linux PPP networking code today due to a fatal error on 64-bit systems. The decoder assumes a 32-bit accumulator width but declares it as unsigned long, causing corruption. This core routine has remained unchanged since Linux 2.1.67 (1997) and 1.3.33 (1995).
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