Re: VFS 64-bit clean

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Feb 1998 02:23:47 GMT


Followup to: <199802191354.IAA10259@cyprus.atlantic.net>
By author: chip@atlantic.net
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Yes.
>
> > khms# touch -d 1950-01-01 bla
> > khms# ls -laFtr bla
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1950 bla
> >
> > I don't think so.
>
> You've mistaken errors in touch and ctime() for ext2fs problems.
>

Nope. time_t is defined as signed, and touch and ctime() are doing
exactly the right thing. If there is an error, it is in the ext2
kernel code. Having a signed time_t is a Good Thing[TM], especially
since once expanded to 64 bits it can pretty much represent all of
time; if it was unsigned it would be limited to 1970 and after.

-hpa

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