New submission from Jack Lloyd:
The XDR format requires integers to fit into 4 byte values. However (at
least on x86-64) xdrlib will silently accept (and truncate) values
larger than this (up to 2**64-1). Taking a (very brief) look at the
xdrlib code, it appears this is actually a problem in the
New submission from Jack Lloyd:
Context: I have a script which checks out a software release (tagged git
revision) and builds an archive to distribute to end users. One goal of this
script is that the archive is reproducible, ie if the script is run twice (at
different times, on different
