RFC: __kernel_time_t

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:07:54PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 
> First, you will se that our definition is wrong in case of amd64, ia64
> and sparc64. Then __time_t in the kernel == __time_t in userland on all 
> platforms but alpha. That's probably because alpha is the first 64-bit
> port and at the time it was done, the wrong choice has been done about
> the type of __time_t.

Maybe this helps:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/glibc-bsd-devel/2004-December/000324.html

According to Bruno, alpha's 32bit time_t won't overflow untill 2038.  I don't
think anybody will care about alpha at that time, so my suggestion would be to
just ignore the problem and use whatever the kernel uses.

P.D: ..and 640kB ought to be enough for everyone

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Robert Millan