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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: year 2038 problem on x86-64
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
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> ... __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME actually is set on x86-64.

But it's not used. It declares an own sys_time64 in arch/x86_64
By default the vsyscall code is used.

Also sys_time is legacy, most users should be using gettimeofday()

-Andi