Re: [RFC 00/32] making inode time stamps y2038 ready

H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-05T00:14:20Z

On 06/04/2014 12:24 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> For other timekeeping stuff in the kernel, I agree that using some
> 64-bit representation (nanoseconds, 32/32 unsigned seconds/nanoseconds,
> ...) has advantages, that's exactly the point I was making earlier
> against simply extending the internal time_t/timespec to 64-bit
> seconds for everything.
>

How much of a performance issue is it to make time_t 64 bits, and for
the bits there are, how hard are they to fix?

-hpa