Hallo Jussi,

Am 06 Apr 99 um 19:04 schrieb Jussi Hamalainen an Paul Walker:

 PW>> Besides, don't forget Unix's own "Y2K" comes in 2038
sometime. ;-)

 JH> That is easy to fix. We just change the time_t type from a 32bit
 JH> unsigned integer to a 64bit unsigned integer and recompile the
 JH> software. That's all there is to it. :)

you don't do *that* on 2038, you just verify that all definitions and
usages of time_t are unsigned. And then recompile and check that everyone
uses only the freshly compiled programs.

Unix's armaggeddon comes in 2106, wenn unsigned 32 bit overflows. You think
of the problem when there is a 31 bit overflow due to time_t being defined
signed by some compiler/library writers.


Tschau...Thomas

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