Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:39:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <200110260139.f9Q1dF117032@apollo.backplane.com> References: <XFMail.011025180107.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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: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)). : :-- : :John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ We do a major-rev change on the libraries and reassign syscall numbers for functions that mess with time_t's, leaving compat routines in the kernel for the old syscall numbers (just as we did for things like stat()). We then remove all int/long assumptions from utility and library code. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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