Fifth draft of the Y2038 design document

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> wrote:
> GLIBC needs to provide 64-bit-time clock_gettime to 32-bit code in
> various run-time cases:
>
> - above an 'old', only 32-bit-time, kernel;
> - above a 'new', mixed 64- and 32-bit-time, kernel;
> - above a 'newer', only 64-bit time, kernel.

Is it really necessary to support 'old' kernels?  That seems like it
would add a great deal of complexity with no actual benefit.

zw