From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Bryson Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] replace unsinged long with time_t Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:37:22 -0800 Message-ID: <20081106183722.GL10996@eratosthenes.cryptobackpack.org> References: <1225993728-4779-1-git-send-email-david@statichacks.org> Reply-To: David Bryson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 06 19:39:01 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ky9kq-0008Bg-Ej for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:38:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751990AbYKFSh1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:37:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751962AbYKFSh0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:37:26 -0500 Received: from cryptobackpack.org ([64.105.32.74]:56724 "EHLO mail.cryptobackpack.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751388AbYKFShZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:37:25 -0500 Received: by mail.cryptobackpack.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C51810D0265; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:37:24 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1-gr1 (2007-05-02) on ptolemy.cryptobackpack.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.1-gr1 Received: from eratosthenes.statichacks.org (heliosphan.cryptobackpack.org [10.6.6.6]) by mail.cryptobackpack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2551C10D0023; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by eratosthenes.statichacks.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DAC9D14462; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:37:22 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:13:46AM -0800 or thereabouts, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So "time_t" really is a pretty damn worthless type. It's not _quite_ as > broken as "socklen_t" (which is just a broken name for "int", and anybody > who declares it to be anythign else is a total moron), but it's close. I have always thought that time_t and similar were braindead, but hey the Janitor page listed it as desireable so what do I know ? > In theory, some platform might have a 64-but "unsigned long long" time_t > even if the architecture is 32-bit (apparently windows used to do that if > you included , for example), but since we wouldn't take > advantage of that anyway, even then there is no real advantage. Having a problem between 32 and 64 bit implementations does seem undesireable. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Janitor?action=info Janitor wiki log says Pasky added the time_t conversion section. Care to explain the reason for the request Pasky ? Dave