begin quoting David Brown as of Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:34:06AM -0800: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:26:32AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > >The UNIX 2038 bug. > > That can be fixed by just changing the type of time_t and recompiling. > Well, ok recompiling everything, and finding all of the programs that > assumed 'long' was the correct return type. I would guess that making > things work with 64-bit systems has been more work than converting 32-bit > programs to use a 64-bit time type would be.
That probably depends on the 64-bit system in question. Aren't SPARC Solaris binaries upwards compatible? > If you plan on running your desktop machine for 30 more years, perhaps it > would be important to make sure it can do 64-bits. I'm guessing you'll > want to upgrade before then. "You" generic, or "you" specific? -- Nothing is obsolete so long as it can still run nethack. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
