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

[John Plocher]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> An interesting idea.  Except that we allow x64 systems to be booted in 
> either 32- or 64- bit mode on the same root filesystem.


As I said - "maybe"

I could see an installer choice of
    Do you want to install a [pick one: 32-, 64- or 32+64-] bit bootable system?

I don't believe isaexec() is a significant performance bottleneck for most
of what we are talking about here.  Yes, it is an extra exec, no it is not
the most expensive thing the user is doing :-)  Lets not do premature
optimizations here - they might not really matter.

Lets drop this thread until Roland has a spec for us to chew on...

   -John