Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:57:14 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: FreeBSD STABLE list <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0605271851240.993@dave.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <20060527083238.GA30554@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <200605251845.k4PIjdx7070553@freefall.freebsd.org> <4476457A.5050800@alumni.rice.edu> <200605260837.k4Q8btpl031485@freefall.freebsd.org> <4476C99C.50200@alumni.rice.edu> <20060526093443.GC94280@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20060526105801.GE744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060527083238.GA30554@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On Sat, 27 May 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, the signedness of time_t is merely historical. > time_t predates explicitely unsigned integer data types in C. > The historical definition seems to have been "long". Actually it was int[2] - see line 0213 of the Lions Book. Or I could get really keen and dig out my old Edition 5 manual... The C compiler didn't grok "long" in those days. -- Dave
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