Re: [PATCH v5 02/17] pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: May 24, 2022, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Yo1bUbys+Fz7g+6h@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <015d01d86fa6$a10519f0$e30f4dd0$@nexbridge.com>

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 03:44:00PM -0400, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:

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> I am again concerned about 32-bit time_t assumptions. time_t is 32-bit on
> some platforms, signed/unsigned, and sometimes 64-bit. We are talking about
> potentially long-persistent files, as I understand this series, so we should
> not be limiting times to end at 2038. That's only 16 years off and I would
> wager that many clones that exist today will exist then.

Note that we're using unsigned fields here, so we have until 2106 (see my earlier response on this in https://lore.kernel.org/git/YdiXecK6fAKl8++G@nand.local/).

Thanks, Taylor

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