In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David G. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there compelling reasons not to change the socket buffer > timeout to a u_long from a u_short? This variable stores > the number of ticks before the socket operation times out.
I already changed it from short to int in -current in July. (It has never been unsigned in FreeBSD, as far as I know.) Making it long is overkill since that means it is 64 bits on the Alpha and Sparc64 platforms. I didn't change it in -stable for compatibility reasons, though I doubt it is much of an issue. In -current only netstat and systat needed to be recompiled. I haven't heard about it affecting any ports. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
