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Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>, Alistair Francis <alistair dot francis at wdc dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx dot de>, Alistair Francis <alistair23 at gmail dot com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:27:34 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> It's a defect! It's literally the only thing stopping us from making
> the user space definition of struct timespec agree with the kernel
> definition, which would make this entire problem vanish!

It's not the job of POSIX to make it easy for one bit (glibc) of an 
implementation to compensate for non-POSIX interfaces in another bit (the 
Linux kernel) of the same implementation.  As far as POSIX is concerned 
it's one implementation.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

References:
- [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Alistair Francis
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Rich Felker
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Rich Felker
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Rich Felker
- Re: [PATCH v9] y2038: Introduce the __ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS define
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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