[111845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Feb 13 22:08:22 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:08:12 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
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Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Once upon a time, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> said:
> FreeBSD used a 64-bit time_t for the AMD64 port pretty much right away.
> On the flip side, it used a 32-bit time_t for the Alpha port. I guess
> someone predicted "it wouldn't be a problem."
Tru64 on Alpha uses a 32 bit time_t (they have their own time64_t and
time64() call), so I expect *BSD and Linux on Alpha stayed with 32 bit
time_t for compatibility (Linux at least could run many Tru64 binaries).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
