I'm not sure why this was just sent to Plocher and myself. Respecting this, I removed the sender's name. Its a little bit of more information for the 32/64 bit discussion. > friends, while reading the discussion on $SUBJECT, fwiw there is a more > subtle reason for working on 64 bit usr utilities, namely: > > 6709455 file utilities should be able to manipulate files with wrong timestamp > http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6709455 > > 6248065 *ls* should be isaexec'ed (64bit on 64bit kernel, 32bit on 32bit > kernel) > http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6248065 > > problems is, in a heterogeneous environment it can happen that files > on the solaris server get created with a timestamp that overflows the 32 bit > time_t > and the administrator has no way of getting rid of those files, we've seen > this > in particular comming from MACOS / windows clients via samba/nfs
The first CR is rather new - possibly created for this discussion. The second CR is 3 years old, but phrased as an RFE. (I'm personally disappointed that this CR/RFE has been sitting there rotting.) Just FYI, - jek3
