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Re: glibc 2.29: Reminder, only ~3 weeks to freeze!
* Joseph Myers:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> * Joseph Myers:
>>
>> > On Sun, 16 Dec 2018, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>> >
>> >> Last cycle, inclusion the Y2038 patches was postponed. I would like to
>> >> get them in for this release. A first few of them have landed in
>> >> already, I can repost the remainder of the series.
>> >
>> > I don't think we can practically get consensus at this time of year on the
>> > trickier pieces, such as stat functions (cf. Florian's proposal; if we
>> > eliminate xstat, obviously the new functions with a stat64 variant using
>> > 64-bit times would need to follow), functions involving futexes, or
>> > anything involving new kernel interfaces.
>>
>> What's a new kernel interface? Anything that's new to glibc?
>
> A new syscall to support 64-bit times on 32-bit systems (or a new ioctl,
> if glibc uses any time-related ioctls).
Okay, so this is not an objection to ABI changes for 2.29. Thanks.
Florian