From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 0: 7:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E2037B403; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.245.128.14.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.128.14] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15x15d-00035d-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:07:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3BD90BEE.20B08DC@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:08:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: John Baldwin , Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. References: <200110260139.f9Q1dF117032@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Matthew Dillon wrote: > 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. BSDI wanted to cut us off on system call numbers, with a very small reserve of available numbers for FreeBSD future expansion. What was the resolution on this issue? It seems that if we agreed to the boundaries they wanted at the time, that we would not be able to take this approach (it was a ridiculously small number, I remember, around 10...). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message