(bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat May 27 01:57:31 PDT 2006


On Sat, 27 May 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken, the signedness of time_t is merely historical.
> time_t predates explicitely unsigned integer data types in C.
> The historical definition seems to have been "long".

Actually it was int[2] - see line 0213 of the Lions Book.  Or I could get 
really keen and dig out my old Edition 5 manual...  The C compiler didn't 
grok "long" in those days.

-- Dave


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