Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: time stamp resolution | Date | 12 Nov 1996 21:46:18 GMT |
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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 -- Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape or form.
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