On 3/2/23 02:38, Andreas Schwab wrote:
There is a huge difference between them: time_t has a flag day, off_t
doesn't.
Absolutely right.
Another thing that's different is that when off_t grew in the 1990s,
people said they needed a wider off_t RIGHT NOW, because programs
wouldn't work on large inputs otherwise. The pressure to build with
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 was large enough that a working consensus was
reached pretty quickly to build that way.
In contrast, people don't urgently need a wider time_t until 2038. So
the "let's be organized about this and do things systematically"
sentiment wins, and because other things take priority time_t conversion
never gets done. (Or possibly the "either the platform or I will be dead
by 2038 so let's do nothing" sentiment wins, which is another
seemingly-good reason to do nothing....)
