[9fans] Some plan9 y2k problems

[Dennis Ritchie dmr@bell-labs.com]

G. David Butler wrote:
>
> One more question, and sort of off topic --
>
> Does anyone know of any celebrations planned on Sep 8/9 2001
> for UNIX's 1,000,000,000 second anniversary?

Well, a couple of magazine reporters have asked me whether
999999999 seconds might be used as an EOF or sentinel or
other special value (I couldn't think of any such
applications, but what do I know)?

Of course, it's also my own birthday.  But maybe I'll
have died in an aircrash on 1/1/00, so don't plan too
far ahead.

	Dennis