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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