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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.
>
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