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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Change time_t and clock_t to 64 bit
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:06:15 -0700
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On 05/16/2014 12:48 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> The stat(64) syscall already has stopped time_t for a long time:
> 
> struct stat64 {
> 	...
> 	int             st_atime;       /* Time of last access.  */
> 	unsigned int    st_atime_nsec;
> 	int             st_mtime;       /* Time of last modification.  */
> 	unsigned int    st_mtime_nsec;
> 	int             st_ctime;	/* Time of last status change. */
> 	unsigned int	st_ctime_nsec;
> };
> 

... except that that is really a struct timespec just written weirdly,
and userspace uses it as a struct timespec.

	-hpa