Second draft of the Y2038 design document

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 21 March 2016 13:15:20 Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What about using GLIBC used over a current 64-bit kernel version, which
> does not have proper Y2038 support, which makes GLIBC unable to provide
> correct time-of-day past Y2038?

Which OS are you thinking of?

I don't think regarding Linux, we ever had any 64-bit kernel that did not
support 64-bit time_t correctly, aside from file system time stamps that
are depending on the file system implementation (e.g. ext4 until recently
was broken)

	Arnd