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Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] y2038: Introduce internal for glibc struct __timespec64

From: Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx dot de>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair23 at gmail dot com>, Alistair Francis <alistair dot francis at wdc dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Stepan Golosunov <stepan at golosunov dot pp dot ru>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:21:49 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] y2038: Introduce internal for glibc struct __timespec64
References: <20190918211603.8444-1-lukma@denx.de> <20190918211603.8444-2-lukma@denx.de> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1909192014250.11875@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

Hi Joseph,

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> 
> > This type is a glibc's "internal" type similar to struct timespec
> > but whose tv_sec field is a __time64_t rather than a time_t, which
> > makes it Y2038-proof and usable to pass syscalls between user code
> > and Y2038-proof kernel.
> > 
> > To support passing this structure to the kernel - the tv_pad, 32
> > bit int, has been introduced. The placement of it depends on
> > endianness of the SoC.
> > 
> > Tested on x86_64 and ARM.
> > 
> > * include/time.h: Add struct __timespec64 definition  
> 
> This patch is OK.
> 

If I may ask - are there any issues with pulling this patch to glibc
-master branch?


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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