Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:22:36 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ok, who broke timed? Message-ID: <20011120052236.0C73C3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011119200200.A33416@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:51:29PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> > That looks very promising indeed. Hrmm. I should go see if NetBSD has fix
ed
> > this. I guess having timeval be different sizes on different archs is a bi
t of
> > a pain. :( Perhaps it should use uint32_t? Or perhaps struct tsp should u
se
> > its own variant of timeval with uint32_t or some such. Ugh.
>
> If timeval is different sizes on different archs then I would
> recomend the work be done take it to 64 bits, not 32. It fixes a
> problem in about 30 years. :-)
Unfortunately, it isn't our on-the-wire protocol to modify.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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