mksh in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 is using a 32-bit register for signed integers

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Issue

  • mksh is using a 32-bit register for signed integers, so anything above 2^31 -1 rolls over to a negative value.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2
  • mksh

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