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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:11:40 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with DHCLIENT vs 64-bit time_t
Message-ID:  <20040223021140.GA83894@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <p0602046dbc5efd648caf@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <p06020407bc533f0ae9d2@[128.113.24.47]> <20040215060047.GA62840@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <p0602040ebc54c885236b@[128.113.24.47]> <20040215165913.M30161@grogged.dyndns.org> <p06020425bc571c20bcde@[128.113.24.47]> <p06020466bc5e09bf7182@[128.113.24.47]> <xzpznbbwfxb.fsf@dwp.des.no> <p0602046dbc5efd648caf@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:57:04PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
> In a later message, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> >Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
> >> This code is then obviously also broken on amd64 and ia64 [...]
> >
> >yep, if they have 64-bit time_t.
> 
> They do, but they are also different-endian. Perhaps the bug
> is not as serious in that case.

Good point.

> It could also be that the
> people able to spend money on amd64 and ia64 can also afford
> to have fixed IP addresses, and they don't run dhclient :-)

Yes, that too. So I guess it's sparc64 specific after all then :-)

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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