Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Given the difference (tv_secs signed vs unsigned), do you really
> expect treating a signed as an unsigned to matter? Is tv_secs allowed
> to be negative?

On most hosts, yes.  POSIX doesn't specify what happens, but usually
it's the obvious thing of time stamps before 1970.  POSIX allows
unsigned time_t, but few hosts do that because it violates application
expectations.

> gzip looks OK (sans the problem in zip.c). Not sure about the rest of
> gnulib; does it ever pull any of the following headers?
> spt_types.h cma.h cma_*.h pthread.h spthread.h pthread_exc.h

gzip won't.  So we're OK.


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