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Re: Second draft of the Y2038 design document

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Cc: Albert ARIBAUD <albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:12:30 -0800
Subject: Re: Second draft of the Y2038 design document
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References: <20160128204114 dot 6c7dbbf7 dot albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr> <56AA8465 dot 5040803 at cs dot ucla dot edu> <1683528 dot yWvM1WbPg0 at wuerfel>

On 01/28/2016 03:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Why are struct rusage, getrusage, etc. Y2038-sensitive? They hold
>intervals, not absolute times.

It can theoretically still overflow, though not at the same time:

In that case, I don't understand why nanosleep, setitimer, adjtime,pselect, etc. are not marked as Y2038-sensitive, as they can alloverflow a 32-bit time_t in the same way that getrusage can.

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