[PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Sep 4 16:49:00 GMT 2019


On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Lukasz Majewski:
> 
> > There was also a conclusion regarding explicit clearing of the padding
> > if necessary - kernel shall do it (or to be more precise - kernel will
> > perform modulo operation of the number passed to it from glibc if
> > needed).
> 
> But that's not what the kernel ended up doing, right?

My understanding is that it did - except for the case of compat syscalls 
under 64-bit kernels 5.1.0 through 5.1.4.

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Joseph S. Myers
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