On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:40:38 -0500, Rich Brown wrote: >- Does the kernel need to protect the format and/or value of the > attribute for the value to be useful to consumers other than the one > that set the value? If so, then it may be a system attribute. > > For example, CREATETIME must be in a time format (timestruc_t).
It would be nice if this were true, but timestruc_t uses signed values (giving a time range from well before the big bang to well after the projected end of the universe) while this project uses unsigned values (giving a time range from midnight Jan 1, 1970, UCT to much further after the projected end of the universe). - Don
