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Re: Accelerating Y2038 glibc fixes
* Rich Felker:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:57:48PM +0200, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
>> Note:
>>
>> [1] -
>> https://github.com/lmajewski/y2038_glibc/commits/Y2038-2.29-glibc-11-03-2019
>>
>> [2] - https://github.com/lmajewski/y2038-tests
>>
>> [3] -
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign?highlight=%28y2038%29
>>
>> [4] - https://github.com/lmajewski/meta-y2038/tree/master
>
> Some findings here that need correction:
>
> [1] is completely missing the sysvipc interfaces affected, and [3]
> fails to document them as affected because the structs are variadic
> arguments not declared ones. Fortunately, this means we can get away
> without actually replacing the functions, and instead define new
> command numbers to perform the translation. When doing this, glibc
> should follow musl and correct other bugs in these structs: for
> example, struct ipc_perm's mode field has the wrong type on some archs
> (short instead of mode_t; only makes a difference on big endian).
Do the musl types match the kernel types?
Thanks,
Florian