[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Dealing with 2038

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/05/2014 07:21 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> 64-bit off_t support seems like a similar issue; all the kernel
> interfaces support 64-bit off_t, and glibc has #defines for
> 64-bit off_t, but a large number of userspace programs don't bother to
> define them.
> 
> That seems like the right path to transition time_t as well.
> 

The transition to a 64-bit off_t was still enormously complex, which
involved defining entirely new types and APIs which were then optionally
#defined to the traditional names.  Hence the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS opt-in.

For time_t it is even worse.

	-hpa