From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:49:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 64-bit fix for date.c.
Message-ID: <20090506164900.GA15160@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0905061523300.28199@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:26:36PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:

> Jeff King [Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:06:58PM -0400] wrote:
> >
> >Hmph. According to POSIX, tv_sec _is_ a time_t. But I see on FreeBSD,
> >also, it is actually a "long". So I think this fix makes sense.
> 
> FreeBSD-7 has time_t tv_sec.

Thanks for the data point (I had looked at FreeBSD 6). I think this fix
still makes sense, though, as it should work on either type (and we
need to support the older platforms, too).

-Peff