Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Could you tell me where you believe to read that POSIX.1-1990 litits
> > the time stamp to unsigned int?
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html
>
> says "It is the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard representation of the octal
> value of the modification time" under the ustar format description.
> Portable POSIX times cannot be negative, so this would seem to imply
> pretty strongly that the value must be an unsigned octal value.
Thank you, so it seems to be in a pararaph where I did not look for a
description related to mtime....
J�rg
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