Re: proposition for fixing Y292B bug

[Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:05:18AM +0200, David Polakovic wrote:
> Hello dear developers and enthusiasts.
> 
> My name is David and recently I wrote a blog post about "necessity"
> of fixing 64-bit signed integer overflow of time_t, sometime in year
> 292 billion. I proposed this to simply have software complete solution
> for timekeeping. The blog had somewhat nice feedback and few people
> told me to write to your mailing list.
> 
> As I mention in the list, I am no way experienced enough in kernel
> space to turn this into full merge request, so I post it to you and
> if anyone would like to build on this idea, it is GPLd for your convenience.
> 
> Any feedback is highly appreciated so please, include me in CC's.
> 
> The blog is written with funny attitude, but it is in no way meant to
> be joke, parody or insult.
> https://dpolakovic.space/blogs/y292b

Reading your paper, it seems like the userspace solution is to introduce bigger
int type (i.e. int128/bigint); and you want the same to apply to kernel, right?
Also, if that happens, I think C also needs built-in bigint type.

Confused...

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