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SubjectRe: time stamp resolution
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Followup to: <m0vN4rk-0005KgC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>
> > Then there are UID numbers. The Hurd, BSD, and NT all have large
> > UID support. Some large corperations and universities actually
> > use more than 16-bits worth of UIDs, so compatibility would be good.
>
> At some point we need to have a flag day, and its probably best we have
> a single libc6, 32bit uid/gid, higher timer resolution, >256 fd flag day
> somewhere before 2.2
>

* 32 or 64-bit dev_t
* 64-bit off_t?
* 64-bit time_t?

Anything else?

-hpa
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