Second draft of the Y2038 design document

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 28 January 2016 16:12:30 Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 01/28/2016 03:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> Why are struct rusage, getrusage, etc. Y2038-sensitive? They hold
> >> >intervals, not absolute times.
> > It can theoretically still overflow, though not at the same time:
> 
> In that case, I don't understand why nanosleep, setitimer, adjtime, 
> pselect, etc. are not marked as Y2038-sensitive, as they can all 
> overflow a 32-bit time_t in the same way that getrusage can.

Agreed. As Joseph said earlier, it does not really matter whether
the interface is problematic by itself. If anything uses a time_t,
it has to be changed along with everything else based on the
definition of that type.

	Arnd