misc/95290: amd64 inetd returns 8 byte time value instead of 4 byte

[hotlips Internet admin]

The following reply was made to PR bin/95290; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: hotlips Internet admin <hostmaster at GTS.NET>
To: kris at obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway)
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/95290: amd64 inetd returns 8 byte time value instead of 4 byte
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:37:33 -0400 (EDT)

 Thus saith Kris Kennaway:
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 | On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:36:14PM +0000, Bruce Becker wrote:
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 | > >How-To-Repeat:
 | > Enable the "time" builtin in inetd.conf, then "telnet localhost time > xxx" -
 | > the last line of "xxx" will contain the erroneous 8 byte result
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 | There's also an argument that the RFC is broken since 64-bit time_t is
 | the way of the future (i.e. the RFC is not Y2.038K compliant and will
 | need to be amended anyway).
 
 
 	Of course you are right, but i need to get my NetApp
 	time synchronised properly in the meantime :) ...
 
 
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