[tor-commits] [tor/master] Document that we are unlikely to underflow session group IDs.

[nickm at torproject.org]

commit 783f705ddc507c082ab53b556317680447f046f6
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 15 10:05:21 2012 -0400

    Document that we are unlikely to underflow session group IDs.
---
 src/or/connection.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/or/connection.c b/src/or/connection.c
index 9bbab19..c22068b 100644
--- a/src/or/connection.c
+++ b/src/or/connection.c
@@ -1048,7 +1048,12 @@ connection_listener_new(const struct sockaddr *listensockaddr,
     if (port_cfg->session_group >= 0) {
       lis_conn->session_group = port_cfg->session_group;
     } else {
-      /* XXXX023 This can wrap after ~INT_MAX ports are opened. */
+      /* This can wrap afuter ~INT_MAX listeners are opened.  But I don't
+       * believe that matters, since you would need to open a ridiculous
+       * number of listeners while keeping the early ones open before you ever
+       * hit this.  An OR with a dozen ports open, for example, would have to
+       * close and re-open its listers every second for 4 years nonstop.
+       */
       lis_conn->session_group = global_next_session_group--;
     }
   }