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From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Subject: Re: time(0L) - history of a misconception (was Re: SCO password generator)
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References: <1991May14.040042.15199@jpradley.jpr.com> <588@sherpa.UUCP> <1141@mwtech.UUCP> <13455@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 23 May 91 09:21:34 GMT

In article <13455@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
> 
> Perhaps it dates back to Version 6 Unix, ...

I think Chris is right.  If you look at any routine that requires a long
(in the `standard' C library) it'll be passed by a pointer.

One Computing Centre once changed ctime(3) to take a long instead of a long *.
Boy, were they sorry.  Broken code from here to backups...


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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