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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [RESEND] spufs: use timespec64 for timestamps
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:07 PM, Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
>> The switch log prints the tv_sec portion of timespec as a 32-bit
>> number, while overflows in 2106. It also uses the timespec type,
>> which is safe on 64-bit architectures, but deprecated because
>> it causes overflows in 2038 elsewhere.
>>
>> This changes it to timespec64 and printing a 64-bit number for
>> consistency.
>
> If we still have spufs in the tree in 2038 I'd be worried :)

Agreed. My hope is to get rid of 'timespec' in 2018 though, this is just
one of many parts of the puzzle.

Arnd

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