Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:15:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, drosih@rpi.edu, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t Message-ID: <199808202115.OAA25534@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980820014520.392H-100000@localhost> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Aug 20, 98 01:47:03 am
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> > It could simply be defeated by finding another pathalogical example. > > Higher time resolution is the only way to fix it correctly. > > Sufficiently pathalogical examples defeat static resolutions (ie. > any resolution that doesn't become finer as necessary). I imagine a scene at Fry's, several years from now, when somone is buying an 18G SCSI drive. The clerk rings it up with the little handheld laser scanner, and conversationally says "Going to create another 10k file, are ya?"... 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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