Re: year 2038 problem on x86-64

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 17:28:52 EST


Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> ... __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME actually is set on x86-64.

But it's not used. It declares an own sys_time64 in arch/x86_64
By default the vsyscall code is used.

Also sys_time is legacy, most users should be using gettimeofday()

-Andi

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