On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:10:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 24 November 2015 14:36:46 Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > This is the patch I would prefer to use (and in fact which I have > > added to the ext4 tree): > > > > There are issues with 32-bit vs 64-bit encoding of times before > > January 1, 1970, which are handled with this patch which is not > > handled with what you have in your patch series. So I'd prefer if you > > drop this patch, and I'll get this sent to Linus as a bug fix for 4.4. > > I'm happy with either one. Apparently both Davids have arrived with > almost the same algorithm and implementation, with the exception of > the pre-1970 handling you mention there. I was doing some testing on x86, which leads me to ask --- what's the current thinking about post y2038 on 32-bit platforms such as x86? I see that there was some talk about using struct timespec64, but we haven't made the transition in the VFS interfaces yet, despite a comment in an LWN article from 2014 stating that "the first steps have been taken; hopefully the rest will follow before too long". Cheers, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
