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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:56:10 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org
Subject:   Re: time_t definition is wrong
Message-ID:  <p05100e11b73ef4f9f5d1@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20010602124907.G31257@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200106012318.f51NI8w38590@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200106020823.f528N5O98998@earth.backplane.com> <20010602085237.A73968@dragon.nuxi.com> <200106021739.f52Hd9V03943@earth.backplane.com> <p05100e0fb73ee9d458f7@[128.113.24.47]> <20010602124907.G31257@dragon.nuxi.com>

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At 12:49 PM -0700 6/2/01, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 02, 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  > I don't have any strong feeling about what is "right" in this
>  > case, but I do think it would be appropriate to back out the
>>  change to time_t until the question *is* correctly sorted out.
>
>I don't see why?  We can't even agree there is a problem.  And if
>dangerous kernel commits can stay in, so can this one.

...also, in situations where "we can't agree there is a problem",
I thought we were supposed to favor the status quo (ie, pre-update)
over rushing in to fix something which we can not agree is broken.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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