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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:45:16 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time_t not to change size on x86 
Message-ID:  <200110280345.f9S3jGv22054@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:14:46 PDT." <200110272014.f9RKEkj56354@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>     And I'm sure there are still K&R problems too.  The point is that 
>     off_t being 64 bits has not posed a serious problem in at least 5 years,
>     probably longer.  It's completely off the radar screen.

Bollocks.  I've had to deal with off_t problems in several major 
commercial porting efforts within the last couple of years, and I'm not 
even a major player in that arena.

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
           V I C T O R Y   N O T   V E N G E A N C E



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