[NTLK] 2010

Kevin Keith krfkeith at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 13:42:05 EST 2009


I'm not versed in the POSIX integration, and I don't know a whole lot about
it.  I just assumed that the above poster assumed that the POSIX-compliancy
of BeOS made it based on UNIX (or that compliancy was a reuslt of it being
based on UNIX).  If I'm wrong then I stand corrected :-)

Kevin

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Steven Scotten <splicer at paroxysm.com>wrote:

> BeOS is mostly POSIX-compliant already. Any OS that counts time from
> midnight  January 1 1970 UTC and which can't count signed integers
> higher than 2^31 is going to have trouble come January 19th 2038.
> Posix doesn't specify counting in 32 bits but it does specify using
> the Unix epoch.
>
> It's fair to say that BeOS's POSIX compliance (or at least imitation
> of this one aspect of Unix) puts it in exactly the same camp as other
> POSIX systems when it comes to counting time. Chris C's evaluation was
> entirely accurate.
>
> Just sayin'.
>
>
> Steve
>
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Kevin Keith wrote:
>
> > BeOS isn't based on UNIX, and implementing POSIX wouldn't make it
> > so.  For
> > instance, just because Windows could have Cygwin wouldn't make it
> > have the
> > timeout error.
> >
> > 2009/11/8 Chris C <chrisc24 at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Probably same thing as any Posix based system.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Apostolos Koutropoulos
> >> <der_admiral at me.com> wrote:
> >>> I wonder when BeOS will be affected LOL :-)
> >>>
> >>> Από το iPhone μου
> >>>
> >>> Nov 5, 2009, 18:35, ο/η Chris C <chrisc24 at gmail.com> έγραψε:
> >>>
> >>>> Unix is next!!! :)
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Pnemonic <pnemonic at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> thanx all 4 help.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> poor Newton!
> >>>>> was so happy that Newton was Y2K bug-free when whole world was
> >>>>> panicked...
> >>>>> and then this had to happen.
> >>>>> :-(
> >>>>>
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> >
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> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> >
> > Kevin Keith
> > OLPC Volunteer
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-- 
Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Keith
OLPC Volunteer



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