Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:45:11 -0500 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD is running out of time Message-ID: <Version.32.19990330144219.00ef97e0@mail.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <199903301823.LAA14513@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199903261019.FAA00733@y.dyson.net>
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So what are these additional fields being used for now? And is there a solution available or in the works to solve the 2038 bug in FreeBSD? Or will we just all be using Linux after that point? :-/ K.S. At 01:23 PM 3/30/99, Terry Lambert wrote: > >Well, as long as we are beating dead horses here... > >IMO, it is *silly* that FreeBSD coopted the fields in FFS that were >reserved for dealing with the Y2038 "bug", which technically didn't >exist in BSD 4.4 until these fields were coopted. > >But then, who am I to look 39 years into the future, instead of only >6 months ahead, like everyone else. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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