On 20-Nov-01 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:06:28PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> Does timed have some major 64 bit issues or something? Trying to run timed >> on >> my 5.0 alpha from a 4.4 x86 box proves disastrous. 5.0 x86 clients work >> fine. >> The alpha keeps getting its date set back into 1970: > > After quick look at the source I would say that timed has some major 64 > bit issues. > As far as I can tell timed sends/receives a 'struct tsp' after > adjusting it for byteorder but not for wordsize. This struct is > defined in <protocols/timed.h> as > > struct tsp { > u_char tsp_type; > u_char tsp_vers; > u_short tsp_seq; > union { > struct timeval tspu_time; > char tspu_hopcnt; > } tsp_u; > char tsp_name[MAXHOSTNAMELEN]; > }; > > and struct timeval is defined in <sys/time.h> as > > struct timeval { > long tv_sec; /* seconds */ > long tv_usec; /* and microseconds */ > };
That looks very promising indeed. Hrmm. I should go see if NetBSD has fixed this. I guess having timeval be different sizes on different archs is a bit of a pain. :( Perhaps it should use uint32_t? Or perhaps struct tsp should use its own variant of timeval with uint32_t or some such. Ugh. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message