From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 14:16:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25022 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25010 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24384; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:15:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd024347; Thu Aug 20 14:15:45 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA25534; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:15:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808202115.OAA25534@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t To: ac199@hwcn.org Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:15:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, drosih@rpi.edu, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Aug 20, 98 01:47:03 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 > > It could simply be defeated by finding another pathalogical example. > > Higher time resolution is the only way to fix it correctly. > > Sufficiently pathalogical examples defeat static resolutions (ie. > any resolution that doesn't become finer as necessary). I imagine a scene at Fry's, several years from now, when somone is buying an 18G SCSI drive. The clerk rings it up with the little handheld laser scanner, and conversationally says "Going to create another 10k file, are ya?"... 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