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Re: Is Y2038-proofing in a glibc roadmap somewhere?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Albert ARIBAUD <albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:52:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Is Y2038-proofing in a glibc roadmap somewhere?
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Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> writes:
> Hmm, why the relationship with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS? At least at first
> sight, supporting 64-bit time seems pretty unrelated/orthogonal to
> supporting 64-bit file sizes.
No new interface should support anything less than 64bit off_t.
Andreas.
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