Re: [PATCH 00/25] Change time_t and clock_t to 64 bit

Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-13T19:14:15Z

On Tue, 13 May 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 05:33:01PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Err, we CANNOT do that. We cannot move ANY 32 bit architecture to
> > 64bit time_t without breaking the world and some more.
>
> Of course we can, we just need to still provide the existing 32-bit
> time_t ABIs for backwards compatiblity. That's how we handled
> extensions of other types like off_t in the past.

Sorry, misunderstood you there.

Sure, I agree that we need to fix it anyway plus all timespec/timeval
usage sites. It's on my and John Stultz radar as well. Just the sheer
amount of syscalls, ioctls etc. makes one shudder.

Thanks,

tglx