System call conversion for year 2038

Posted May 15, 2015 3:56 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
Parent article: System call conversion for year 2038

> NFSv3 has a similar problem,

Similar, but not the same.
NFSv3 time stamps are unsigned, so they reach until 2106, but don't go back before 1970.

See RFC1813 definition of nfstime3. Linux server and client get this right (but silently truncate any timestamps out side that range).