Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Thu Nov 19 21:22:12 UTC 2009


On 11/19/2009 04:21 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 04:13 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> On 11/18/2009 09:23 PM, King InuYasha wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Ikem Krueger
>>>
>>> 1: Date/Time stamp, Unix time doesn't work in 32-bit past 2038 (not
>>> really affecting us much, most of us will replace our PCs long before then)
>>
>> I believe even 32-bit kernels now keep the time in a 64-bit integer.
>> This shouldn't apply any more.
> 
> Sure it does -- time_t in userland is 32-bit, and that's what applications
> are using, and what the system call interface supports.
> 

Problematic, but we do have 29 years to fix it :)

--CJD




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