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Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: proposition for fixing Y292B bug Message-ID: References: <3be3235a-dea7-a5ca-b5ea-4047bdeb695d@dpolakovic.space> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mtp0d7qpyejkCAan" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3be3235a-dea7-a5ca-b5ea-4047bdeb695d@dpolakovic.space> --mtp0d7qpyejkCAan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:05:18AM +0200, David Polakovic wrote: > Hello dear developers and enthusiasts. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 convenien= ce. >=20 > Any feedback is highly appreciated so please, include me in CC's. >=20 > 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 bi= gger int type (i.e. int128/bigint); and you want the same to apply to kernel, ri= ght? Also, if that happens, I think C also needs built-in bigint type. 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