On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:17:05 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >Sure, it would be nice to rip that "unsigned" abomination out of C. >But who is goint to rewrite the world afterwards?
Ahhh, there's the pity that BK (IIRC) used a signed variable for clock ticks. We would have had a 2K106 bug rather than a very close 2K38 bug if he didn't provide for useless negative time. Mind you if we let it now be an unsigned variable nothing would break and slight changes to programs that use it could update over the next 26 years to be ready. 6/6 hindsight is wonderful. R/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
