Re: armhf and year 2038 limitation

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 11:24:46 AM EET, Jean-Christian de Rivaz 
wrote:
> HI, I try to build a jessie based armhf embedded system that 
> will pass the year 2038 limitation.

> So far, I have learn that I have to use btrfs instead of ext4, 
> and that the struct timespec.tv_sec must be 64-bit instead of 
> 32-bit. It look like the Linux kernel already handle the time on 
> 64-bit variable internally even on armhf, but that the libc and 
> all applications that use it must be recompiled. Maybe I have 
> miss some others points and maybe there is already a plan to 
> handle the problem, for example in the next release, but I was 
> unable to find good informations on this.

> As we are still more than 20 years before the limit, the issue 
> could sound only theoretical but it's actually more a confidence 
> and marketing problem trying to push a system that is well known 
> to hang in about two decades.

> Any informations on the subject are welcome,

You might want to check the slides and video recoding of this topic from 
the recent linaro connect:

http://www.slideshare.net/linaroorg/hkg15206-solving-the-year-2038-problem-in-linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILiMzjN71zM

So people are working, but there is still plenty of work to do. 
Riku