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Long-term security

Long-term security

Posted Sep 13, 2006 14:19 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Long-term security by dark
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

They'll only continue to work if we've fixed all the places where 32-bit time_t is wired into data on disk, filesystems layouts, and so on. (Mind you those'll have to be fixed sooner or later anyway).


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