From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 20:50:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1331037B505 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9R3nf678020; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:49:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:49:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200110270349.f9R3nf678020@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: des@ofug.org Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. In-Reply-To: References: <200110270133.f9R1Xnv06295@mass.dis.org> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org 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 In article you write: >Chapter and verse, please. Not just a repetition of what somebody >else says may or may not be in C90. Cheap shot. See C90 defect report #67, . Although neither time_t nor ``arithmetic type'' is not explicitly mentioned in the defect report, the answers to Clive Feather's final two questions apply. time_t is defined by POSIX as representing times in seconds. (See XBD under .) Some interfaces are defined to use relative times measured in seconds (or smaller units when `struct timespec' is used); other interfaces are defined to use Seconds Since the Epoch (see XBD under the definition thereof). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message