time(0L) - history of a misconception (was Re: SCO password generator)

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <13455 at dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek at 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...


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