Re: year 2038 is only 12 years away

Hi Bernhard,

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 11:15 +0100, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
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> On 2/2/26 11:52 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > FWIW Gentoo is ready for testing 64bit time_t on 32bit architectures
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> It is worth remembering, that while this is necessary, there are still=
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> remaining issues, especially with code that handles time entries from/to=
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> files or network, because the conversion from/to time_t from binary or=
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> ASCII formats might involve 32-bit int values, e.g. through a call of=20
> atoi(str) or with the perl/python pack function.
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> I already found dozens of these on x86_64 with slight testing.
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> some examples are
> https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/927
> https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/issues/559
> https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZEO/issues/245
> https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/40552
> https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-32188
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> And that other type of issues (not the only one of this kind)
> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2742
> .

Thanks a lot for your work on this.

Since Debian already has switched its 32-bit targets to time64_t (except fo=
r i386),
have you considered running additional tests on Debian's armhf target?

Adrian

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