[RFC 00/10] y2038: nptl: futex: Provide support for futex_time64

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 17/07/2020 04:27, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it is on my list. I am trying to handle the mess of stat
>> functions 
> 
> Regarding stat - it is indeed a mess - many versions of the same
> functions for generic, LFS, and architectures (like ARM). Conversion to
> 64 bit time support is challenging there as well.
> 
> But as fair as I can tell - more than "code base" cleanup - the raise
> of glibc minimal kernel supported version would help much more in this
> situation as code for many "use cases" would be just removed.
> 
> A side remark - now the oldest LTS kernel supported is 4.4 and oldest
> supported kernel for glibc is 3.2.
> Maybe it is a good time to bump the minimal supported kernel for glibc?
> 
>> before starting on the lowlevellock-futex.h.
> 
> If you don't have time to do the conversion in next two weeks then
> - I can in the meantime do a conversion for the above code snippet -
> futex_reltimed_wait_time64() (and up to pthread_mutex_{timed,clock}).
> This work shall be orthogonal to lowlevellock-futex.h cleanup.
> 
> What do you think?

Sure, I am not sure if I will be able to start the lowlevellock work.

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