Re: [PATCH v5 02/17] pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files

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On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 03:44:00PM -0400, rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am again concerned about 32-bit time_t assumptions. time_t is 32-bit on
> some platforms, signed/unsigned, and sometimes 64-bit. We are talking about
> potentially long-persistent files, as I understand this series, so we should
> not be limiting times to end at 2038. That's only 16 years off and I would
> wager that many clones that exist today will exist then.

Note that we're using unsigned fields here, so we have until 2106 (see
my earlier response on this in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/YdiXecK6fAKl8++G@nand.local/).

Thanks,
Taylor



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