On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > isofs uses a 'char' variable to load the number of years since > 1900 for an inode timestamp. On architectures that use a signed > char type by default, this results in an invalid date for > anything beyond 2027. > > This adds a cast to 'u8' for the year number, which should extend > the shelf life of the file system until 2155.
Oops, the CD archive of my scanned Napoleon manuscripts no longer has the right file date? ;-) Are there any practical uses of representating dates between 1772 and 1900 on CD/DVD? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/