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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:07:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time_t not to change size on x86 
Message-ID:  <200110280407.f9S47A188852@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <200110280345.f9S3jGv22054@mass.dis.org>

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:>     And I'm sure there are still K&R problems too.  The point is that 
:>     off_t being 64 bits has not posed a serious problem in at least 5 years,
:>     probably longer.  It's completely off the radar screen.
:
:Bollocks.  I've had to deal with off_t problems in several major 
:commercial porting efforts within the last couple of years, and I'm not 
:even a major player in that arena.

   Well boohoo, I'm sure it was a real nasty, difficult problem for you.
   That seems to be what you are implying.  It must have been *real* hard
   doing a #include <unistd.h>!  Me?  It took me all of 10 seconds to fix
   the off_t bugs when they came up.  I minded a little at first, but it
   wasn't long until I became a believer.

						-Matt


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