Fourth draft of the Y2038 design document
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.aribaud@3adev.fr
Tue Jun 21 22:58:00 GMT 2016
Hi all,
I have produced a fourth draft of what will eventually become the Y2038
design document:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign?rev=83
Relative to the previous draft:
* the scope clarifies that *only* Y2038 is considered, and no other
doomsday such as Y2106 or Y9999;
* all types directly or indirectly derived from time_t are now listed;
* all APIs using these types are now listed;
* all functions which use time_t internally are now listed;
* also listed are types and APIs related to time but which are
Y2038-safe (even though they might be unsafe for some other
doomsday, e.g. struct rpc_timeval being Y2106-unsafe).
As always, comments welcome.
Cordialement,
Albert ARIBAUD
3ADEV
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