Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:47:26 +0200 | Subject | Re: all files are executable in vfat | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
> On 25 Sep 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> Yes *please*! Finally we could introduce proper support for >> 64-bit inode numbers too!
> Right. As soon as userland is audited for places where it uses > int for storing inode numbers - just a couple of months after > MS fixes all security holes in their software. By then we'll > need 128bit time_t, though...
Anybody using the fstat64() interface has of course already done this, and MS are known to be releasing the highly secure Windoze-XP any day now...
I think I could find a use for the larger time_t too...
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