Re: kern/40384 (64 bit time_t broke wscons)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 14, 11:48am, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/40384 (64 bit time_t broke wscons)

| hi,
| 
| > Synopsis: 64 bit time_t broke wscons
| > 
| > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
| > State-Changed-By: christos%NetBSD.org@localhost
| > State-Changed-When: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:01:19 -0500
| > State-Changed-Why:
| > fixed, thanks
| 
| thanks for a quick fix.
| won't it be confused by concurrent operations?
| eg. concurrent SETVERSION ioctls
| i think that it's better to always use the new version for
| in-kernel structures and do conversion when doing copyin/out.

Each setversion flushes the queue. I thought about doing it the way you
suggest, but it makes the code more complicated. I think that for the
most part there will be one setversion per open or none.

christos