From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Dealing with 2038
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 10:30:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536D10C2.5070907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140506022158.GA1499@thin>
On 05/05/2014 07:21 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
>
> 64-bit off_t support seems like a similar issue; all the kernel
> interfaces support 64-bit off_t, and glibc has #defines for
> 64-bit off_t, but a large number of userspace programs don't bother to
> define them.
>
> That seems like the right path to transition time_t as well.
>
The transition to a 64-bit off_t was still enormously complex, which
involved defining entirely new types and APIs which were then optionally
#defined to the traditional names. Hence the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS opt-in.
For time_t it is even worse.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-05 18:33 [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Dealing with 2038 John Stultz
2014-05-05 19:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-05 20:53 ` josh
2014-05-05 23:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-06 2:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-06 2:21 ` Josh Triplett
2014-05-06 12:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-06 17:53 ` John Stultz
2014-05-06 18:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-06 20:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-06 20:33 ` josh
2014-05-06 20:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-06 22:06 ` John Stultz
2014-05-07 2:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-07 11:19 ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-05-07 17:28 ` John Stultz
2014-05-09 15:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-08 20:37 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-05-09 15:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-09 20:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-09 22:33 ` Josh Triplett
2014-05-10 0:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-10 1:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-05-15 12:18 ` Grant Likely
2014-05-15 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-16 2:50 ` Jason Cooper
2014-05-10 0:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-06 21:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2014-05-06 21:56 ` Luck, Tony
2014-05-07 1:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2014-05-07 14:00 ` Grant Likely
2014-05-09 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-05-06 1:25 ` Li Zefan
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