Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/23/2016 09:36 AM, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:32:46AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Andrew Pinski <pinskia@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > So if you want aarch64 to be compatible with aarch32, you need to
> > > define __WORDSIZE_TIME64_COMPAT32.  If we don't want aarch64 and
> > > aarch32 to be compatible at all, then we can drop this patch or if you
> > > don't want LP64 and ILP32 to be compatible either.
> >
> > Or go the other way like s390 and use the LP64 layout for ILP32.
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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> > Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx
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>
> It was an agreement that we don't fix Y2038 issues specifically, as
> there will be general fix.

As far as I understand this, it is not a Y2038 issue because it affects 
current systems using current dates.  It's a separate bug IMHO.

Florian