64 bit time_t

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 11:38:38 am John Hein wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote at 10:40 -0400 on Sep 17, 2008:
>  > And with amd64/x86-64, it may prove to not really be necessary.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the "may" part.  Aren't we already using 64
> bit time_t natively on amd64?  Or maybe you're talking about 32 bit
> compat on amd64.

Yes, we are, and as newer server-class machines (at least) are predominantly 
64-bit, for at least the server-class market it would seem that boxes will 
probably move to an amd64 kernel with a 64-bit time_t w/o requiring lots of 
rototilling to support 64-bit time_t on i386.

-- 
John Baldwin