From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 17:48: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8FE37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f9Q0lsf16513; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:47:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200110260047.f9Q0lsf16513@apollo.backplane.com> To: Kirk McKusick Cc: Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. References: <200110260006.f9Q05vQ05273@beastie.mckusick.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I vote for option (3), 64-bit time_t for all 64 bit architectures. :I would go along with option (4) provided that the change-over came :with FreeBSD 5.0 and it was not MFC'ed back to the 4.X series. :The change from 4.X to 5.0 will have enough other things going on :that I do not think that adding the time_t change would cause a :lot more pain provided that old dump tapes and log files could :be read. : : Kirk McKusick I agree completely. 64 bit time_t for all 64 bit archs, and frankly I would also like to see a 64 bit time_t for 5.x on 32 bit archs... lets get the pain over and done with now rather then later. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message