Is Y2038-proofing in a glibc roadmap somewhere?

Szabolcs Nagy nsz@port70.net
Thu Jun 18 13:52:00 GMT 2015


* Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> [2015-06-18 15:08:35 +0200]:
> 
> I have read https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/HomePage especially
> sections 5.9.1 (Project TODO) and 5.10 (Project Wishlist by Developer)
> and found no indication that Y2038-proofing glibc was on any roadmap for
> glibc. Is it really not, or did I just miss it?
> 

because it is a kernel issue and glibc cannot do much until
the problematic syscall abis can handle 64bit time_t

for current state of the linux kernel side see
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-05/msg00430.html
http://lwn.net/Articles/643407/



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