From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 19 17:52:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12354 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12347 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22076; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:51:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd022019; Wed Aug 19 17:51:40 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00591; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:51:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808200051.RAA00591@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 00:51:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199808191518.JAA20039@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 19, 98 09:18:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > when a decision is made for real migration, #define's can be used as > > > an interim kludge to port EXISTING time_t code without code changes. > > > > The existing time_t is not a problem. The existing time_t is 32 bits. > > A 64 bit time_t is only a problem because the fields reserved for a > > 64 bit time_t were stolen. Recover them! They are stolen propery! > > They *belong* to time_t! > > For what it's worth, the nsec fields in the FS were *stolen* by the very > folk that brought us UFS. They are part of Lite2. (I just checked). Doesn't make it less of a hack. Maybe it was BSDI dropping a logic bomb on us... ;-). > So, you're whining to the wrong crowd. Go yell at Kirk for awhile, and > see what his response is. :) :) I'll ask him. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message