ISC dhcp server on NetBSD
Roderick van Domburg
r.s.a.vandomburg at student.utwente.nl
Sun Apr 25 13:53:28 UTC 2004
> > I'd say that it is reasonable for ntohl to be unsigned, since a 32-bit
> > quantity in non-native byte order shouldn't be treated as signed
> > (which implies native byte order). time_t might become 64 bits in the
> > future, too.
>
> Problem is that time_t is a signed, not unsigned.
For completeness: on some FreeBSD targets (sparc64), time_t already is
64-bit. dhclient fails horribly on these targets, and it's safe to assume
that dhcpd will too.
Regards,
Roderick
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