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Re: First draft of the Y2038 design document
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Albert ARIBAUD <albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:59:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: First draft of the Y2038 design document
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- References: <20151026001252 dot 590e09c1 dot albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr>
On 10/26/2015 12:12 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have produced a fist draft of what will eventually become the Y2038
> design document:
>
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign
>
> Questions, notes, comments, corrections can be appended to the document
> and/or discussed here.
Do you really need new system calls if the existing arguments only take
arguments specifying relative time?
On the glibc side, does symbol versioning really buy us that much? It
seems that quite a few libraries (including libstdc++, I think) expose
relevant types in their interfaces, so these interfaces would have to be
versioned as well. I wonder where this would end.
Florian