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Re: [PATCH] Add NEWS entry about 64-bit time_t syscall use on 32-bit targets
On 30/01/20 9:35 pm, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> i don't want to bikeshed the news entry, but
I think it's important to get the colour of this bike shed right :)
> this wording does not convey that the use of
> time64 syscalls throughout glibc internally is
> what is new, only that some fallback code has
> known compatibility issues. (users don't know
> what impact "wrappers for time64 syscalls" have)
OK got it. How is this then:
~~~
System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
-ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
~~~
> in any case i'm happy if the issue is mentioned
> in the news in one way or another (or maybe this
> sort of thing goes into release notes on the wiki?).
>
The NEWS becomes part of the published release notes.