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Re: First draft of the Y2038 design document

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Albert ARIBAUD <albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:38:36 -0700
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> <562DDD60 dot 2030803 at redhat dot com>

Florian Weimer wrote:

Do you really need new system calls if the existing arguments only take
arguments specifying relative time?

Yes. For example, the shell command 'sleep Infinity' wants to sleep forever, soit'd like to invoke nanosleep with a struct timespec where tv_sec = 2**63 - 1.Currently 'sleep' doesn't do that because it knows nanosleep is broken, but it'dbe nicer to have a nanosleep that Just Works.

References:
- First draft of the Y2038 design document
  - From: Albert ARIBAUD
- Re: First draft of the Y2038 design document
  - From: Florian Weimer

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