From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] timekeeping: Limit system time to prevent 32-bit time_t overflow
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:31:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150415223154.65c8d05e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429112488-12574-1-git-send-email-mlichvar@redhat.com>
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 17:41:28 +0200
Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> wrote:
> On systems with 32-bit time_t, it seems there are quite a few problems
> that applications may have with time overflowing in year 2038. Beside
Even ext4 is still broken for 2038.
> larger value. When the maximum is reached in normal time accumulation,
> the clock will be stepped back by one week.
Which itself is open to exploits and dirty tricks and causes bizarre
problems. IMHO it doesn't actually improve the situation.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-15 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-09 16:45 Preventing " Miroslav Lichvar
2015-04-09 17:05 ` John Stultz
2015-04-15 15:41 ` [RFC][PATCH] timekeeping: Limit system time to prevent " Miroslav Lichvar
2015-04-15 16:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-04-15 16:17 ` Justin Keller
2015-04-16 7:56 ` Miroslav Lichvar
2015-04-15 21:31 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2015-04-16 7:54 ` Miroslav Lichvar
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