> Agreed in the general case (in other words: for the syscall interface).
> But the internal representation on disk is mostly independant and since it's
> used in ext2fs to represent [acm]time and since those accesses could not have
> happened before 1970 since ext2fs didn't exist at the time, it seems perfectly
> fine to use unsigned 32bit ints (which get translated to signed 64bit or signed
> 32bit for VFS interfacing).
not fully true. what happens if you'd like to copy files from a pretty old machine
and keep the files' timestamps from pre-1970 from that (obviously non-UNIX)
file system ?
I know of similar transistions (well, not exactly pre-1970 but pretty close),
but lucky enough time stamps of files doesn't matter in that case ;-)
Harald
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