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?
--
ldv
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