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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/32] making inode time stamps y2038 ready
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 06:44:36 +0200
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To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 05:23:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2014 16:51:15 Richard Cochran wrote:
> > 
> > Why are some of the time stamp expiration dates marked as "never"?
> 
> It's an approximation:

Also, the term "never" might mean using arbitrarily long integers
as in ASN.1.

Thanks,
Richard