Re: [Coder-Com] gnuworld numeric

2002-07-13 Thread Isomer
> > It is very, very important that the max users field be of the correct > > form. > > -- > > Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > indeed. i hope it'll be fixed? (127 looks very ok to me) > > i think of another idea: in ircu, check the numeric of the S message and > force it to be 2^n-1 (o

Re: [Coder-Com] gnuworld numeric

2002-07-13 Thread bas
> It is very, very important that the max users field be of the correct > form. > -- > Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> indeed. i hope it'll be fixed? (127 looks very ok to me) i think of another idea: in ircu, check the numeric of the S message and force it to be 2^n-1 (otherwise break the

Re: [Coder-Com] gnuworld numeric

2002-07-12 Thread Kev
> Why not? As I understand it, the max users field is useless anyway. The max users field is used by ircu to perform a kind of modulus operation on the user numeric. The operation used is a bitwise operation that requires that the max users field be 2^n-1. If you don't do this, you can have pr

Re: [Coder-Com] gnuworld numeric

2002-07-12 Thread Dan
Why not? As I understand it, the max users field is useless anyway. Dan bas wrote: > why does gnuworld (still) send its "max users" numeric be "ABl" > (obviously NOT a 2^n-1)

[Coder-Com] gnuworld numeric

2002-07-12 Thread bas
why does gnuworld (still) send its "max users" numeric be "ABl" (obviously NOT a 2^n-1)