Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 16:52:18, Antoine.Beaupre (Antoine Beaupre (LMC)) wrote about
"Re: time_t definition is worng":
> Why not make leave it a long on alpha (and IA64) and make it a 'long
> long' on IA32 so that we get rid of the Y38 bug right now? ;)
It will break ABI compatilibity in too many places. Most of them can
be reduced to new syscalls (at least: wait4, stat, lstat, fstat, setitimer,
getitimer, select, getrusage, settimeofday, gettimeofday, utimes,
adjtime, futimes, poll...), structure content retranslation code
in obsolete syscalls implementations, major version bump for almost all
shared libraries... Because deadline will be in 2038, I don't think
FreeBSD staff will do such changes before 2020.;| (Are you sure
unix systems will exist yet another 20 years?)
/netch
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