Y2038 (was: Re: Userapi, Reflection)

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Tue Nov 4 11:04:25 PST 2003


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:18:01 -0800 (PST)
Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    What I would also like to do is 'fix' system calls which return structures,
>    like gettimeofday(), fstat(), and so forth... instead of returning
>    structures they would return a resource array.  The personality code
>    would then scan the resource array to load the C structures that the user
>    program expects.

Ah, speaking of which, are there any plans to address the Y2038 bug in DFBSD?

This mechanism would be an excellent first step towards it.

-Chris
(singing the Beatles' "When I'm 64" :)





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