2014-12-01 12:05 GMT+01:00 Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com>: > Stefan Sperling said: > > Bad idea. See my other post. Apple did this and broke existing > applications. > > OpenBSD changed time_t and broke existing applications, but hardly > anyone thinks it was a bad idea. Fancy filenames are long known to be > problematic, so filename policy enforcement is a breakage of the same > sort.
Well, even if the implementation broke old assumptions on how large the storage of a time_t is, it did not make previously valid dates invalid. There is quite a bit of difference between changing the storage format and making some dates "impossible" that previously did work. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
