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Packing timeval

December 05, 2012
<p>Recently I got a lot of failures from CPAN Testers for RedisDB on NetBSD i386. After investigating a bit I've found that <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html">NetBSD 6.0</a> comes now with 64-bit <code>time_t</code> on all architectures. It means that the way I used to pack <code>struct timeval</code> value to set timeout on socket, didn't work anymore. Previously it was the same as <code>long, long</code> on all systems and pack looked like this&hellip; </p> read more