On 17 Apr 2001 10:55:44 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> No, I just switched the order of the calculation:
> 
> from:  offset * 100 / size
> 
> to: offset / size * 100
> 
> offset * 100 was overflowing the off_t aand so the original calculation
> was giving me -5 in some places in my mbox file when I imported it (this
> mbox was 390 meg, it was probably a good 60+ meg into the file when it
> overflowed)


Sigh, the solution is flawed, you lose (a lot of) precision.

> Jeff
> 
> On 17 Apr 2001 17:03:06 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> > ]
> > 
> > You didn't use doubles did you?
> > 
> > 
> > On 16 Apr 2001 21:55:06 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > I fixed a progress reporting bug ~2 hours ago that dealt with an integer
> > > overflow. Mayb this fixes your bug as well? I can't tell because
> > > netscape won't open png files :\
> > > 
> > > Jeff
> > > 
> > > On 17 Apr 2001 11:07:19 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > On 14 Apr 2001 04:33:28 -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > with CVS head I get the following:
> > > > > 
> > > > >       http://primates.ximian.com/~michael/bug.png
> > > > > 
> > > > >       Needless to say /tmp/nonexistant and /tmp/mbox are in fact empty,
> > > > > so reports of extracting hundreds of messages from them (228% complete
> > > > > etc. :-) seem rather exagerated.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Are they empty, or actually non-existant?
> > > > 
> > > > It doesn't say 228% complete either.
> > > > 
> > > > >       Any chance of a simply thinko somewhere ?
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, the user putting in non-existant files perhaps? :)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >  !Z
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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