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Re: ls default time style
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: ls default time style |
Date: |
11 Dec 2001 16:42:10 +0100 |
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Markus Kuhn <address@hidden> writes:
|> Andreas Schwab wrote on 2001-12-11 14:50 UTC:
|> > Both Linux/Alpha and Linux/ia64 use 64-bit time_t. Pluggin in new
|> > filesystems that support this is easy. OK, network protocols will be
|> > harder to fix.
|>
|> In practice, I fear that you will just get in a 64-bit integer word a
|> 32-bit timestamp passed in the least significant half. Does all/most/any
|> software running under Linux/Alpha and Linux/ia64 that receives a 32-bit
|> timestamp and stores it in a 64-bit time_t do anything more
|> sophisticated than filling up the remaining 32-bit with the sign bit?
|> Does at least GNU software do that? Is there a recommended coding
|> practice for what to do exactly when converting 32-bit
|> seconds-since-the-epoch to 64-bit?
The kernel has all the business to cope with it. Since there are no
filesystems with 64-bit time_t yet, I cannot check, but the kernel<->user
land interface is 64-bit clean.
Andreas.
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- Re: ls default time style, (continued)
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