Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:40:46PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: > > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:14:12PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > [snip] > > > It's a full case now. > > > > Who or what decided that ? IMO this still fast-track. > > Darren Moffat derailed it.
And I disagree with Darren. Originally his was a simple engineering issue until other people mutated the RFE. The original idea to get some improvements (by shipping GNU coreutils and "bash" as 64bit applications by default on 64bit-only platforms (which means SPARC and two Solaris ports which shall-not-be-named right now)), including: -- snip -- - No problem with dates >= 2030 (64bit |time_t|) - High-resolution timestamps by default - Stack would be non-executable by default - ARG_MAX would be larger (twice the size), therefore allowing applications to deal with much more data (note this extra memory is mapped via |mmap()|-like calls and only reserves the size, not actually allocate it (reserved address space != real memory usage)). - "bash" supports arrays and it would be nice that we don't limit the array content to 2GB -- snip -- Please tell me why this requires a FULL ARC case. This isn't normal anymore. Darren: Can you please revoke the derail ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
