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Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:24 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > OK, how does this look?
> >
> > >From dc644211be404aea73b6bd218777c6f06472d9f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
> > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:27:03 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
> >
> > Add a macro to linux/kernel-features.h, __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS, to
> > indicate whether the kernel can be assumed to provide a set of system
> > calls that process 64-bit time_t.
> >
> > __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS does not indicate whether time_t is actually
> > 64 bits (that's __TIMEBITS) and also does not indicate whether the
> > 64-bit time_t system calls have "time64" suffixes on their names.
> >
> > Code that uses __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS will be added in subsequent
> > patches.
>
> This version is OK.
Great! Thanks for your help Zack.
Do you want to send this out as a patch?
Alistair
>
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> Joseph S. Myers
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