Re: Year 2000 and Linux

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 00:00

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In <casper.889020671@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com> Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.Com (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer) writes:

>time() doesn't even return -1.

Not on Linux, but the C standard requires it to return (time_t)-1 if the
time information is not available.  Of course, this does NOT mean that
time_t must be a signed type.  It's a signed type for portability reasons
only.

Dan
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