Year 2038 preparations in 3.17

Posted Aug 8, 2014 14:15 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Year 2038 preparations in 3.17

This is a good start (reminiscent, surely intentionally, of the LFS approach) but of course doesn't solve problems in file formats or in filesystems themselves. 32-bit time_t's are still fairly common there :(