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Subject: Re: 64 bit time_t 
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In message <20080916211646.GA35778@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks Davis writes
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>On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:17:16PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
>> Other than recompiling for -current users (and not being an MFC-able
>> change and possibly breaking a gazillion unfortunately written ports),
>> are their any other issues with switching to 64 bit time_t for i386?
>> I suppose compat libs are a bit dicey.
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>Off hand: every syscall that takes a time_t or a structure containing
>a time_t would have to be reimplemented and a compatability version[...]

This is a pretty nasty piece of work because it also involves the
timespec and timeval structures which appear in ioctls, socket
options, socket messages and so on.

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