Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 04/20] mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon Aug 05 2019 - 10:14:32 EST


On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 18:49 -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> The warning reuses the uptime max of 30 years used by the
> setitimeofday().
>
> Note that the warning is only added for new filesystem mounts
> through the mount syscall. Automounts do not have the same warning.
[...]

Another thing - perhaps this warning should be suppressed for read-only
mounts?

Ben.

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