Re: another attempt at Y2038
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, at 16:41, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> likely to still be in routine use beyond 2038
>
> Sidenote towards ISO 9660 image producers:
>
> Don't forget to check from time to time whether Linux removed the
> int bottleneck in fs/isofs/.
> See:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800627#38
>
> The bug report was originally about a Y2028 rollover caused by 8-bit
> signedness. It was closed after
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34be4dbf87fc
> which left the int problem for future adventures.
>
> Currently it's still "int iso_date()" in:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/isofs/isofs.h line 109
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/isofs/util.c line 19
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
That's just a trivially fixed bug, right? I don't recall
ever seeing a bug report or a patch for it in the past. Would
you like to send the patch, or should I?
Arnd
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