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Re: Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17



On Sat, 02 Sep 2017, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Massive numbers of libraries are going to need updates, possibly more
> than people realise. Anything embedding a time_t will obviously need
> changing. However, many more structures will embed a timeval or
> timespec and they're also broken. Almost anything that embeds
> libc-exposed timing functions will need updating.

Let's not forget about several archive formats, too, such as cpio.  They
have to be extended/replaced.

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh


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