Full case ? / was: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351Self Review]

[Roland Mainz]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:40:46PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:14:12PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > It's a full case now.
> >
> > Who or what decided that ? IMO this still fast-track.
> 
> Darren Moffat derailed it.

And I disagree with Darren. Originally his was a simple engineering
issue until other people mutated the RFE. The original idea to get some
improvements (by shipping GNU coreutils and "bash" as 64bit applications
by default on 64bit-only platforms (which means SPARC and two Solaris
ports which shall-not-be-named right now)), including:
-- snip --
- No problem with dates >= 2030 (64bit |time_t|)
- High-resolution timestamps by default
- Stack would be non-executable by default
- ARG_MAX would be larger (twice the size), therefore allowing
applications to deal with much more data (note this extra memory is
mapped via |mmap()|-like calls and only reserves the size, not actually
allocate it (reserved address space != real memory usage)).
- "bash" supports arrays and it would be nice that we don't limit the
array content to 2GB
-- snip --

Please tell me why this requires a FULL ARC case. This isn't normal
anymore.

Darren: Can you please revoke the derail ?

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Bye,
Roland

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