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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Finegrained a/c/mtime was Re: Directory notification problem
Date: 03 Oct 2001 01:06:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r8slywp0.fsf@myware.mynet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110022206100.29931-100000@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <oupitdx9n2m.fsf@pigdrop.muc.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: Andi Kleen's message of "03 Oct 2001 09:53:21 +0200"

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> For stat is also requires a changed glibc ABI -- the glibc/2.4 stat64

Not only stat64, also plain stat.

> structure reserved an additional 4 bytes for every timestamp, but these
> either need to be used to give more seconds for the year 2038 problem
> or be used for the ms fractions. y2038 is somewhat important too.

The fields are meant for nanoseconds.  The y2038 will definitely be
solved by time-shifting or making time_t unsigned.  In any way nothing
of importance here and now.  Especially since there won't be many
systems which are running today and which have a 32-bit time_t be used
then.  For the rest I'm sure that in 37 years there will be the one or
the other ABI change.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110022206100.29931-100000@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-10-03  7:53 ` Finegrained a/c/mtime was Re: Directory notification problem Andi Kleen
2001-10-03  8:06   ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2001-10-03 13:35     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-03 14:11       ` Netfilter problem Kirill Ratkin
2001-10-03 21:42         ` Luigi Genoni
2001-10-03 15:24       ` Finegrained a/c/mtime was Re: Directory notification problem Gerhard Mack
2001-10-16 18:56         ` Riley Williams
2001-10-03 15:15     ` Alex Larsson
2001-10-03 21:26       ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-05 12:44         ` Padraig Brady
2001-10-05 12:59           ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-10-05 13:01           ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-05 13:15             ` Padraig Brady
2001-10-05 14:38               ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-05 15:00                 ` Padraig Brady
2001-10-05 19:12                   ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-08  8:39                     ` Padraig Brady
2001-10-08  8:58                       ` Padraig Brady
2001-10-08 10:04                       ` Trond Myklebust
2001-10-05 20:22                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-03 17:45   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-13 15:24     ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-13 16:12       ` Andi Kleen
2001-10-13 19:38         ` Jamie Lokier

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