From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jun 2 17:44:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C6037B422 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA58011; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:44:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:44:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200106030044.UAA58011@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng X-Newsgroups: mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch In-Reply-To: <200106022049.f52Kn1W35106@vashon.polstra.com> References: <200106012318.f51NI8w38590@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200106021739.f52Hd9V03943@earth.backplane.com> <20010602124732.F31257@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010602222626.A26556@student.uu.se> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200106022049.f52Kn1W35106@vashon.polstra.com> you write: >Since only the kernel mess with the filesystem bits directly, the fact >that a 32-bit time_t is used in FFS needn't be a show-stopper for >moving to a 64-bit type in userland. According to Kirk, the space in FFS that is now used by microsecond timestamps was originally originally put there to prepare for 64-bit time_t. If we made such a change now, we would be stuck translating inode formats back and forth for the forseeable future. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message