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From: Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The 2038 bug...
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 17:32:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210106163225.GC2973@darioniedermann.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoKV7A46ho3ORghFZEddROty3A-y2bn1VY0m=ipBxFF6w@mail.gmail.com>

Il 31/12/2020 alle 16:30, Warner Losh ha scritto:

>On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:10 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
[...]
>>time_t these days tends to be 64 bits, and I think at least the Linux 
>>file systems store them that way.
>
>Time_t was still 32 bits last I checked on i386 and a few others...

On recent Linux/i386 kernels it's actually 64 bits. In practice, only 
users who are stuck with old i386 Linux versions will have a problem.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-06 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-31  7:19 Dave Horsfall
2020-12-31  7:24 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-31  8:10   ` arnold
2020-12-31 15:30     ` Warner Losh
2020-12-31 16:09       ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-31 16:12         ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-11  7:18           ` alan
2021-01-11 14:01             ` Stuart Remphrey
2020-12-31 18:36         ` Theodore Ts'o
2020-12-31 21:34           ` Warner Losh
2021-01-06 16:32       ` Dario Niedermann [this message]
2021-01-06 17:08         ` Henry Bent
2021-01-06 18:05           ` Dario Niedermann
2021-01-06 18:20           ` Michael Kjörling
2021-01-06 21:09         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-31 19:18     ` Bakul Shah
2021-01-04  8:22 ` Peter Jeremy via TUHS
2021-01-04  9:13   ` Angus Robinson
2021-01-04 21:49   ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-04 21:56     ` Warner Losh
2021-01-05 18:05       ` Dan Cross
2021-01-06  7:21         ` Warner Losh
2021-01-07 22:56     ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-08  1:25       ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-10  6:56         ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-04  8:59 ` Sergio Pedraja
2021-01-07 22:50 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-10  7:16 ` Valdimar Sigurdsson
2021-01-10  7:24   ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-01-10 10:15   ` Stuart Remphrey
2020-12-31 15:05 M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-31 16:51 ` arnold
2020-12-31 23:31   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-01-09  8:44 Norman Wilson

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