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Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal



On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 11:45 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:

> 2. i386 as a multiarch foreign architecture to run legacy binaries on
>    modern x86_64 systems
>    2a. legacy native Linux i386 binaries
>    2b. legacy Windows i386 binaries via Wine (which requires a somewhat
>        complete i386 Linux library stack)

Has anyone checked what percentage of these binaries will still run
adequately after 2038 with 32-bit time_t?

Presumably any network components will be dead or require modern
protocols by then, so this could only be offline programs?

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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