[561] in Kerberos
Re:change in format of kdb_util dump files
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Tue Dec 20 11:11:37 1988
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Jeffrey I. Schiller's message of Mon, 19 Dec 88 23:49:06 EST,
I thought about this a bit last night, and after reading Jeff Schiller's
concerns, I changed my mind and only made a slight change in format,
extending the year field to 4 digits, and using GMT. The input side is
capable of detecting old-style dumps and assuming 19xx and local time.
It really isn't hard to parse the field into a (struct tm), and the
routines I picked up from RCS convert that into a 32-bit time [That was
the real hair in the code that came from /bin/date].
The problem that might remain is reading a new dump into an old kdb_util,
which would get horribly confused by the date extension.
Further comments?
John
