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Date:      Sat, 7 Jul 2001 13:05:38 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems
Message-ID:  <20010707130538.I16759@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010707130201.F50477-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:02:28PM -0700
References:  <20010707125957.H16759@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010707130201.F50477-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:02:28PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:54:26AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:08:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > > >      		  i386 type	Alpha type
> > > > > clock_t	unsigned long	int
> > > >
> > > > We could make these the same (not sure why they aren't).
> > >
> > > because on alpha long == 64 bits
> >
> > What about the otherway around??  Like use "int" or "unsigned int" on
> > both.
> 
> Let's use 64 bits for both.
> 
> You're retirement has been put off to 2043 at least...

I don't know what clock_t is used for (kernel version of time_t?).
But the general agreement was to leave time as a 32-bit value on the
Alpha in order to match (1) FreeBSD/i386 and (2) OSF/1,Digital Unix,Tru64.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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