Interest in 64-bit time_t for PPC port?

[Garance A Drosihn]

The sparc64 port is looking to switch it's time_t definition
from 32-bit to 64-bit.  No effort at backwards-compatibility,
we'll just do a hard-and-fast switch.  With a little luck, we
may do that this month.  We would have to do it before 5.3, or
we would have to let it wait until 6.0 (at which point we *will*
have to provide backwards-compatibility).

We believe we can do that now, because there aren't all that many
sparc64 users, and most of them would rather get this change out-
of-the-way right now.  Would this make sense for the PPC port,
too?  I am not running freebsd/ppc on anything yet, so I don't
think my opinion on this counts for much.

If it does seem like a good idea, the writeup in

http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/time-64/UPDATING.64BTT
and the script in:
http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/time-64/installworld_nk

should give all the details on what would need to be done.  The
writeup is not perfect, but it does include a complete and explicit
list of the steps which every user should follow to perform the
64-bit update.  But it's half-written for people who are *testing*
that change (and the installworld_nk script), and half-written as
if the change has already taken place.

As background, I'll note that the amd64 and ia64 ports are already
using a 64-bit time_t.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu