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2038 is closer than it seems

2038 is closer than it seems

Posted May 22, 2014 7:27 UTC (Thu) by niner (guest, #26151)
In reply to: 2038 is closer than it seems by mezcalero
Parent article: 2038 is closer than it seems

Since stat() without LFS support is only for compatability, I assume it would suffice to add a stat64_t64 (with hopefully a better name). But having three variants is bad enough.

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2038 is closer than it seems

Posted May 22, 2014 9:48 UTC (Thu) by arnd (subscriber, #8866) [Link]

For the particular example, we have been talking about a replacement for stat that solves a number of other problems as well. See http://lwn.net/Articles/394298/ for instance.


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