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Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?



On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 11:57 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ben Hutchings:
> 
> > If I recall correctly, glibc *will* provide both entry points, so there
> > is no ABI break.  But the size of time_t (etc.) exposed through libc-
> > dev is fixed at glibc build time.
> 
> Is this a Debian-specific decision?

I though that was the *upstream* decision, but perhaps that's still not
decided after all?

Ben.

> There has been a proposal upstream not to support 32-bit time_t for
> new applications at all, but I don't think we will go in that
> direction.
-- 
Ben Hutchings
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