Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:15:53 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <3C8C59A9.7B102EAA@mindspring.com> References: <80530.1015828637@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3C8C03DB.E673B495@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > >> No, we can't change the size of struct stat (binary compatibility!) > > > >I think the first thing we would change, wee we to "go hog > >wild" would be to make times in seconds 64 bits, anyway... > > If there were one thing I'd like to change, it would be Terrys ability > to preach on issues he hasn't quite grasped the full implications off. > > The change I'd want is to turn that ability off. Entirely off. FWIW, and so that you understand what you have commented upon: "Hog wild" is an American expression which means "doing things which are inadvisable because one has thrown caution to the wind". In this case, it was a reference on the relative merits of reasons for destroying binary backward compatability. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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