Re: (Resend) 2038 Kernel Summit Discussion Fodder

2014-09-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/08/2014 10:55 AM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: >> Today, there's good chance there's linux somewhere in your car. (Dashboard, >> entertainment system). People like to keep cars from 1910 working, and I >> suspect >> that is not going to change. >> >> So yes, in 2038 people will be running 32bi

Re: (Resend) 2038 Kernel Summit Discussion Fodder

2014-09-08 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> Today, there's good chance there's linux somewhere in your car. (Dashboard, > entertainment system). People like to keep cars from 1910 working, and I > suspect > that is not going to change. > > So yes, in 2038 people will be running 32bit linux. > > Whether there will be people putting 32bit

Re: (Resend) 2038 Kernel Summit Discussion Fodder

2014-09-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > There was also some pre-discussion before the sessions started around > why we don't just change time_t to be unsigned. From the kernel's > point of view this would be mostly fine, since dates before 1970 are > not considered valid for any internal uses (with the exception of some > filesyst

Re: (Resend) 2038 Kernel Summit Discussion Fodder

2014-08-27 Thread John Stultz
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:08 PM, John Stultz wrote: > So what I’d like to cover in this mail, are some discussion starters around > ABI modifications that I think we should discuss at Kernel Summit, in order > to make sure we have a clear path forward, as what we decide for the ABI > modifications

Re: (Resend) 2038 Kernel Summit Discussion Fodder

2014-08-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 12 August 2014 17:08:53 John Stultz wrote: > Next week at Kernel Summit, I'm hoping to have a discussion on 2038 during > one of the unconference slots, so I wanted to send out some background > information about the various proposed approaches (as well as send this out > for wider inpu