[RFC 00/32] making inode time stamps y2038 ready
Joseph S. Myers
joseph at codesourcery.com
Tue Jun 3 07:33:10 PDT 2014
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I think John Stultz and Thomas Gleixner have already started looking
> at how the timekeeping code can be updated. Once that is done, we should
> be able to add a functional 64-bit gettimeofday/settimeofday syscall
> pair. While I definitely agree this is one of the most basic things to
> have, it's also not an area of the kernel that is easy to change.
64-bit clock_gettime / clock_settime instead of gettimeofday /
settimeofday should avoid the need for the kernel to have a 64-bit version
of struct timeval. (Userspace 64-bit gettimeofday / settimeofday would
need to use a combination of the syscalls if the tz pointer is non-NULL.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph at codesourcery.com
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