RE: [MiNT] DATE/TIME cookies

["Julian Reschke" <Reschke@medicaldataservice.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Petr Stehlik
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 1999 2:17 PM
> To: mint
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] DATE/TIME cookies
>
>
> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:44:00 +0100, Jörg_Westheide wrote:
>
> J>JW>They encourage programers to access memory owned by the
> kernel of which I
> J>JW>think it should be forbidden.
> J>PS>read-only access should not be harmful I think.
> J>But it will not work if the kernel will be removed from the applications
> J>address space some time
>
> OK, so what if FreeMiNT allocated two word blocks in a global memory and
> ´mirrored´ the internal datestamp and timestamp variables into those
> vars in global memory? By mirroring I mean that routines updating date
> and timestamp would also update the mirrored_global_dateandtimestamp.
> And of course the ´DATE´ and ´TIME´ cookies would point to the global
> blocks.

This would require that MiNT indeed continues to use that time and date
format
internally. However my understanding is that this is something that is
likely
to change sooner or later.

Regards, jr