openssh portable on FreeBSD i386

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, Todd C. Miller wrote:

>My inclination would be to just make the timeout signed to match
>time_t.  No need for ugly casts then and parse_timeout() parses the

For OpenSSH itself, sure. For portable OpenSSH that’s not an option;
time_t can be unsigned, signed, or even float.

Another option would be to make the variable also time_t, but that
would waste much space on contemporary platforms due to Y2038, so
I think that, here, the cast is better.

bye,
//mirabilos
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