From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 09:37:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16827 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 09:37:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16822; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 09:37:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA19472; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:37:12 +0200 (EET) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:37:12 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Gary Palmer cc: Jonathan Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K, Y 2038? In-Reply-To: <75916.915304507@gjp.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Gary Palmer wrote: > Jonathan Smith wrote in message ID > : > > the world is freaking out over it. Perhaps an introduction of a 64 bit > > time, or larger under a different name, and have BSD start working over > > towards the new name now and deprecating the old time variable? > > While the world is still using 32bit CPUs the move to 64bit time_t will be > expensive in terms of performance. We could probably make the move on the DEC > Alpha, but until ppl move to the Merced (or whatever 64bit P.O.S. Intel > produces) I don't think many people will like to take the performance > degredation now. > Will it really? We are using 64 bit file offsets now (for a good reason, I might add), and these are definately more widely used than dates. What actually uses the date code widely? Make? > Personally, my thoughs on how to do this are to have new syscalls which return > 64 bit time_t variables, and you choose at compile time which ones you get > (i.e. sorta like the way solaris 7 has done things) > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message