[111846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Feb 13 22:11:51 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:11:40 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090214030812.GC1513611@hiwaay.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:08:12 -0600
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 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).
NetBSD has just converted its -current branch to 64-bit time_t; I'm
pretty sure that that includes the Alpha port.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
