On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 05:10:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 07 October 2015 16:23:44 Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > Without the limit added by this patch make will go nuts just one week > > later when the 32-bit time_t overflows to Dec 13 1901 and the files > > will appear as 136 years in the future. How is that better? > > Not better or worse at all, that was my point. The time is still > wrong either way, whether you step back by a week or 136 years.
The difference is that with the one-week step the kernel and userspace still agree on the current time and it is always valid from the kernel point of view, absolute timers can be set, etc. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
