From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 30 11:51:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from geek.grf.ov.com (geek.grf.ov.com [192.251.86.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E9B15AD9 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:51:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from pebbles (pebbles.cam.veritas.com [166.98.49.16]) by geek.grf.ov.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA06407; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:51:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: X-Sender: ksmm@mail.cybercom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:45:11 -0500 To: Terry Lambert From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: FreeBSD is running out of time Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199903301823.LAA14513@usr06.primenet.com> References: <199903261019.FAA00733@y.dyson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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