[TUHS] The 2038 bug...

Dario Niedermann dario at darioniedermann.it
Thu Jan 7 02:32:25 AEST 2021


Il 31/12/2020 alle 16:30, Warner Losh ha scritto:

>On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:10 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
[...]
>>time_t these days tends to be 64 bits, and I think at least the Linux 
>>file systems store them that way.
>
>Time_t was still 32 bits last I checked on i386 and a few others...

On recent Linux/i386 kernels it's actually 64 bits. In practice, only 
users who are stuck with old i386 Linux versions will have a problem.

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