Change in K4 ticket cache format

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz at cmu.edu
Thu May 19 14:53:51 EDT 2005



On Thursday, May 19, 2005 01:27:58 PM -0400 Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> 
wrote:

> I think an approach like this would be worth accepting probably even
> if it only works for little endian systems.  I don't think we at MIT
> have time to adapt this patch.
>
> However assuming no one speaks up and says this is a bad idea, I think
> we'd be likely to accept a patch if someone on the list were to port
> Jeff's work to MIT.

I can't remember if I said this already, but...
While I haven't found a way to design an "alignment record" that will work 
on big-endian systems, it should still be straightforward to make the 
ticket file code able to _read_ files written in either format (or a 
mixture).


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