Todd C. Miller <mill...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:05:12 -0000, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > > > Omit the last line of the manual, because there is no need for it. > > It's a play on the old joke: > > What's the difference between a piano and a fish? > You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish! > > No one would dare remove the line in tunefs(8) due to the curse > listed in the man page source: > > .\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until > .\" the time_t's wrap around. > You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.
We extended time_t's to 64-bit in 2014, because this curse was becoming increasingly less threatening.
