[TUHS] The 2038 bug...

[Henry Bent]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 11:40, Dario Niedermann <dario at darioniedermann.it>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Do you happen to know what the cutoff is?  Are 2.6 kernels (still very
common) safe?  3.x?  4.x?

-Henry
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