Re: [yocto] [OE-core] [Openembedded-architecture] Y2038 proposal

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 30/11/2022 16:46:17+0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2022, at 14:20, Richard Purdie via lists.yoctoproject.org <richard.purdie=linuxfoundation.org@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:
> >>> * Could we optionally disable some of the glibc 32 bit function calls
> >>> to ensure they're not being used? 
> >> 
> >> Could you be more specific here? Would you like to disable some
> >> syscalls?
> > 
> > I'm meaning disabling the 32 bit glibc time functions.
> 
> Some time ago I filed https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6803 as Debian has a nice sanity check where it warns if non-LFS glibc functions are used.  I imagine the same logic could be used to check for 32-bit time_t use.
> 

We can simply disable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME in the kernel config.

> Ross

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