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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Well, the return type for time() changed from "int" (or was it long?) |
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> to "time_t" many years back. That said, the actual underlying |
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> representation has never changed on 32-bit Linux systems. Posix |
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> requires it to be signed, and on 32-bit Linux systems, it's still |
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> going to overflow in 2038 -- same as it ever was. |
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time() did always return a long, in special since it counts only in seconds. |
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Unfortunately Tru64 from DEC changed that to an int and Linux copied the bug. |
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FreeBSD was going to make the same mistake, but I warned them and they delayed |
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their 64bit kernel until they had tested everything well enough. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/' |
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