Re: kern/40384 (64 bit time_t broke wscons)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40384; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi), 
gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40384 (64 bit time_t broke wscons)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:09:38 -0500

 On Jan 14, 11:48am, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/40384 (64 bit time_t broke wscons)
 
 | hi,
 | 
 | > Synopsis: 64 bit time_t broke wscons
 | > 
 | > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 | > State-Changed-By: christos%NetBSD.org@localhost
 | > State-Changed-When: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:01:19 -0500
 | > State-Changed-Why:
 | > fixed, thanks
 | 
 | thanks for a quick fix.
 | won't it be confused by concurrent operations?
 | eg. concurrent SETVERSION ioctls
 | i think that it's better to always use the new version for
 | in-kernel structures and do conversion when doing copyin/out.
 
 Each setversion flushes the queue. I thought about doing it the way you
 suggest, but it makes the code more complicated. I think that for the
 most part there will be one setversion per open or none.
 
 christos