Second draft of the Y2038 design document

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Arnd and Paul,

Le Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:58:16 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> a
écrit :

> 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.

Thanks for the feedback (and sorry I could not reply earlier). I will
update the list accordingly.

Cordialement,
Albert ARIBAUD
3ADEV