Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/10/2009 10:20 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> Mark Allums writes:
> > Totally irrelevant, but:  Isn't the Linux epoch 64 bits?
>
> Only with a 64 bit kernel.

And 64-bit userland.

$ date -d@9876543210
date: invalid date `@9876543210'

$ uname -m
x86_64

$ dpkg-architecture
DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS=linux
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_CPU=i386
DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i486
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnu
DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i486-linux-gnu
DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386
DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS=linux
DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU=i386
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i486
DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnu
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i486-linux-gnu


Besides, wouldn't changing size_t would break binary compatibility 
when moving data files from an older machine to a newer machine?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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