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

[Florian Weimer]

* 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).

Okay, so this is not an objection to ABI changes for 2.29.  Thanks.

Florian