Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: time_t size: The year 2038 bug? | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:39:02 -0800 |
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> people do and will continue to do stuff like > > time_t tx; > ... > time(&tx); > write(tx,sizeof(time_t),fd); > > and this gets embedded into fileformats like tar and various databases > making it very hard to change.
That is flat out broken. Nothing you can do will fix that. You obviously can't fix that with a library or kernel change because any change in the definition of a 'time_t' will _break_ that code. Code that has that in it _deserves_ to break.
DS
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