glibc 2.29: Reminder, only ~3 weeks to freeze!

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Joseph Myers:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 Dec 2018, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> >
> >> Last cycle, inclusion the Y2038 patches was postponed. I would like to
> >> get them in for this release. A first few of them have landed in
> >> already, I can repost the remainder of the series.
> >
> > I don't think we can practically get consensus at this time of year on the 
> > trickier pieces, such as stat functions (cf. Florian's proposal; if we 
> > eliminate xstat, obviously the new functions with a stat64 variant using 
> > 64-bit times would need to follow), functions involving futexes, or 
> > anything involving new kernel interfaces.
> 
> What's a new kernel interface?  Anything that's new to glibc?

A new syscall to support 64-bit times on 32-bit systems (or a new ioctl, 
if glibc uses any time-related ioctls).

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Joseph S. Myers
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