Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:01:07 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <XFMail.011025180107.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200110260006.f9Q05vQ05273@beastie.mckusick.com>
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On 26-Oct-01 Kirk McKusick wrote: > 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. Agreed. Also, we could hack the compat libraries shipped with 5.x for Alpha and i386 to dink with the syscall arguments where necessary to allow legacy applications to run. Well, dynamically linked ones. :( I suppose we could use an alternate syscall table like we do for linux, svr4, etc. for compat on i386 and alpha for old binaries. (This is for the 4) case and possibly 3)). > Kirk McKusick -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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