Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
>
>>>> stat64(2) already exists -- you get it with largefile compiles. However,
>>>> I don't think the time fields are 64 bit.
>>>>
>>> They are not. This is the problem.
>>>
>>> J?rg
>
>
>> I think its time we invented a new version of stat, utimes, etc. that
>> used 64-bit time_t's, even on 32-bit kernels. Some new compilation
>> flags (-DTIME64 ?) could use #pragma's to rename the symbols for "new"
>> programs, which could be then used for compiling programs in ON.
>
> If you like this to be independent of largefile compilation, you would need
> to introduce two new interfaces for stat(2).
And that's my concern - how many types are we going to retrofit in the
32-bit ABI, and what is the resulting combinatorial explosion of different
type-combinations going to look like?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
