Second draft of the Y2038 design document

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Thu Jan 28 21:13:00 GMT 2016


Some typos: "1901-12-13 19:55:13 UTC" should be "1901-12-13 20:45:52 
UTC". "sentive" should be "sensitive". "20338" should be "2038". "Thins" 
should be "This".

I don't see why functions like 'time' and 'gettimeofday' should be 
allowed to misbehave on 64-bit hosts after 2038. They should just work. 
Glibc should not worry about 64-bit kernels without 64-bit time support. 
Any such kernels should just get fixed before 2038 rolls around.

Why are struct rusage, getrusage, etc. Y2038-sensitive? They hold 
intervals, not absolute times.



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