From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 12:48:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl (amsfep13-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A5C37B405 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20011026194813.WFGH18584.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:48:13 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f9QJl3N02404; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:47:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:47:03 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Terry Lambert Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Julian Elischer , Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011026214703.K96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <2912.1004113233@critter.freebsd.dk> <3BD993A6.E6B12512@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BD993A6.E6B12512@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises 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 -On [20011026 18:49], Terry Lambert (tlambert2@mindspring.com) wrote: >According to you, that won't bite anyone for 10 years. I have heard arguments like this before. ``The solution is temporary.'' ``But we will replace this with the correct stuff in a few days/weeks/months/years.'' 10 years passes quickly has been my experience and I rather have a good solution than one which fills the gap for 10 years now and that we get this entire revisitation 10 years from now. But that's my personal belief and observations. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ United we stand, divided we fall... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message