Is Y2038-proofing in a glibc roadmap somewhere?

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Mon Aug 3 19:02:00 GMT 2015


Joseph Myers wrote:
> The evidence is that libraries affected by the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value are
> more likely nowadays to be built with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 than
> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=32 on GNU/Linux distributions.

Even at the time _FILE_OFFSET_BITS was introduced, I thought that it was a 
mistake for it to default to 32.  An understandable mistake, but a mistake 
nonetheless.  What a hassle it was to arrange for every application to #define 
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS to 64!

Can we avoid the mistake this time around, and have _TIME_BITS default to 64?



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