Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Andrej Shadura wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, 10:40 YunQiang Su, <wzssyqa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> just redefine time_t to 64bit may also cause a problem:
>>    a bad designed and old network protocol which aims  only target 32bit
>> system,
>>    a binary data packet, may contain time_t:
>>         struct {
>>             int a;
>>             time_t b;
>>         }
>> just define time_t to 64 will break this protocol, although it is bad
>> designed.
>
>Aren't such things already broken on amd64?

Of course they are, yes. We may have cases where nobody has tested
interop between 32 and 64 bit machines, though. :-/

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