On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:30:39PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The other large missing piece is the system call implementation. I have > posted a series earlier this year before my parental leave, and it's > currently lacking review from libc folks, and blocked on me to update > the series and post it again. I assume that this also means there hasn't been much thought about userspace support above libc? i.e., how to take a 64-bit time64_t (or changing the size of time_t) and translating that to a string using some kind of version of ctime() and asctime(), and how to parse a post-2038 date string and turning it into a 64-bit time_t on a 32-bit platform? The reason why I'm asking is because I'm thinking about how to add the appropriate regression test support to e2fsprogs for 32-bit platforms. I'm probably going to just skip the tests on architectures where sizeof(time_t) == 4 for now, since with a 32-bit time_t adding support for post-2038 in a e2fsprogs-specific way is (a) something I don't have time for, and (b) probably a waste of time since presumably we will either need to have a more general solution, or simply decide to give up on 32-bit platforms by 2038.... 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
