From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 5 11:34:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.227.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB33537B407 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avatar+pop3@kew.com) Received: from xena (xena.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.148]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2848C385B for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:34:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <029c01c0edee$18b52d20$94cba8c0@xena> From: "Drew Derbyshire" To: References: <200106051533.IAA02947@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:34:03 -0400 Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks (http://www.kew.com/kendra) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bite the freaking bullet and make time_t long long across all platforms > NOW!! Yes, you'll have to fix ufs, and probably a lot of things that > we haven't even thought of, but NOW is the time to start, not in 20 years!! Jeez. Don't break working code. Push for a fix of the UNIX epoch now if you want, but use a new typedef and new library calls. Then you don't break code which WILL work for another 26 years; also, you can search for time_t in the code and if you find it, you know you still have a problem in 2038. IPV6 support is rapidly getting into sources only because it didn't break every program on the planet using IPV4. Learn from the example. -ahd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message