Fifth draft of the Y2038 design document

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Thu Feb 23 00:47:00 GMT 2017


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> In the specific case of tv_nsec, I am so convinced that the bare
>> 'long' is a bug in the standards that I think we should just go ahead
>> and introduce nsec_t unilaterally.  I am 100% serious.
>
> If it were clear there would have been more interest (than none) in such a
> change when it was raised with the Austin Group.

I don't much care why the Austin Group doesn't understand that this is
a bug.  It remains a bug and we should not delay fixing it just
because they don't get it.

zw



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