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

[Kris Kennaway]

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

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Bruce Becker <hostmaster at whois.gts.net>
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 13:59:44 -0400

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 On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:36:14PM +0000, Bruce Becker wrote:
 
 > >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
 
 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).
 
 Kris
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