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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