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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:58:56 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
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:  <20010602125856.L31257@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <p05100e11b73ef4f9f5d1@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:56:10PM -0400
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> <p05100e11b73ef4f9f5d1@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:56:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 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.

We've just *started* the disucussion.  If we can decide on it in 48-hours
why toss the repo back and forth.

Also show me the errors in other programs from this.
We need to fix them anyway as Alpha and i386 will have same sized time_t.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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