On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 11:04:29AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > i'm the upstream and help with preparing the Debian packages. > So i assume that any needed action in this case is up to my sponsor > Dominique Dumont (Cc'd).
> But: > Are you aware that the effort to switch to 64 bit time_t is not worth much > in a ISO 9660 producing software, even on amd64, as long as > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/isofs/isofs.h > has int as return type of the ISO-9660-to-Unix-time function > extern int iso_date(u8 *, int); > (implemented in fs/isofs/util.c) ? > I once made a successful attempt to get the attention of parts of the > kernel community: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221024135517.7d40b96a206020eca03e3...@linux-foundation.org/t/ > But as it looks, it never made it into the torvalds repo. Well, that's a different problem than making sure libraries which expose time-related types in their ABIs are using 64-bit types consistently and don't have crashes at runtime due to ABI skew between library and caller! Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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