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Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>,
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Subject: Re: 64 bit time_t
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On Tuesday 16 September 2008 05:26:14 pm Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >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.

And with amd64/x86-64, it may prove to not really be necessary.

-- 
John Baldwin