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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

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