Re: newbie y2038 bug, patch

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 02:52:13 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Reading "Linux Core Kernel Commentary" at bedtime,
> I noticed what looks like a wraparound bug in
> do_timer_interrupt() that could cause set_rtc_mmss
> to get called once per second (instead of once
> every 11 minutes) for an 11 minute interval near
> the wraparound of xtime.tv_sec in the year 2038.

Erm... x86 boxen... 2038... You know, there will be one hell of
wraparound problems in 2038 on the surviving specimen of x86. Check the
size of time_t.

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