Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: Limit system time to prevent 32-bit time_t overflow

[Miroslav Lichvar]

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
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