Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:31:54 +0100 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] timekeeping: Limit system time to prevent 32-bit time_t overflow |
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:41:28 +0200 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> wrote:
> On systems with 32-bit time_t, it seems there are quite a few problems > that applications may have with time overflowing in year 2038. Beside
Even ext4 is still broken for 2038.
> larger value. When the maximum is reached in normal time accumulation, > the clock will be stepped back by one week.
Which itself is open to exploits and dirty tricks and causes bizarre problems. IMHO it doesn't actually improve the situation.
Alan
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