Sixth draft of the Y2038 design document

Dmitry V. Levin ldv@altlinux.org
Thu Nov 15 14:04:00 GMT 2018


Hi,

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:20:51PM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have produced a sixth draft of what will eventually become the Y2038
> design document:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign?rev=146
> 
> Relative to the previous draft:
> 
>  * Precisions re padding in struct timespec was added.
> 
>  * Better separation of APIs and implementations; notably, developed
>    the distinction between API types and implementation types.
> 
>  * Cleaned up API tables (e.g., removed argument names and left types
>    only).
> 
>  * Also developed on implementation vs kernel types (e.g., struct
>    timespec conversion between GLIB padded versions and kernel non-
>    padded versions.
> 
> As always, comments welcome.

Is there any rationale for marking wait4 as an obsolete API?


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ldv
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