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Re: glibc 2.29: Reminder, only ~3 weeks to freeze!
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).
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Joseph S. Myers
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