Fixing "touch" to reset ancient/weired/far-future timestamps... / was: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:42:54PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> PS: Roland, please take my advice and take the time to do things "the 
> right way", which includes a complete ARC review of the 64-bit problems 
> you're trying to solve.  Attempting to do an end-run around ARC with a 
> bunch of little cases to avoid providing the full picture is unlikely to 
> be well received.

I don't think Roland was trying to do an end-run around anything.  I
think Roland didn't see that he was stepping into a minefield.

Nico
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