Re: [KERNEL] VFS 64-bit clean
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Feb 1998 06:49:41 GMT
Followup to: <19980220003039.45911@cyprus>
By author: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> They're not. The kernel code that takes a signed time_t and stores it
> in ext2fs should forbid the assignment of signed values. That's
> because ext2fs is *not* defined with signed time_t values. Maybe you
> think it should be, but it isn't.
>
As I said in the next sentence: if there is a bug, it is in the ext2fs
kernel code, not in touch and stat.
-hpa
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