From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The 2038 bug...
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:08:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBeiKfSau8SD9Y1ru427Z3XErSNzCtwaF7CwFcKQGvcftg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210106163225.GC2973@darioniedermann.it>
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On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 11:40, Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Do you happen to know what the cutoff is? Are 2.6 kernels (still very
common) safe? 3.x? 4.x?
-Henry
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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
2021-01-06 17:08 ` Henry Bent [this message]
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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