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SubjectRe: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:35 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> Y2038 is certainly the single biggest issue here, and I fully admit to
> not having a good answer on that one.  Note that applies to every single
> 32-bit ABI in the Linux kernel, including asm-generic which is used by
> all brand new architectures.

So I've had journalists ask me about it, and I've always said that by
the time 2038 rolls around, we'll all be using 64-bit CPU's.

Which I think is a reasonable answer.

But if those 64-bit CPU's are then running some ULP32 "fast mode",
then that answer goes out the window. And I really think it's
fundamentally wrong to have "off_t" and "time_t" be 32-bit in this day
and age. I'd hate to introduce a new mode like that. It just makes me
go "Eww".

Linus
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