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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> Well, the return type for time() changed from "int" (or was it long?) |
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> to "time_t" many years back. That said, the actual underlying |
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> representation has never changed on 32-bit Linux systems. Posix |
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> requires it to be signed, and on 32-bit Linux systems, it's still |
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> going to overflow in 2038 -- same as it ever was. |
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This is correct: |
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mh@n ~ $ date -u -d @2147483647 |
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Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038 |
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mh@n ~ $ date -u -d @2147483648 |
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date: invalid date '@2147483648' |
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<crystal ball mode>Will there be any fix until then, or will I have |
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to reinstall all my 32bit Gentoo systems with 64bit kernels?</crystal |
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ball mode> |
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Is there actually a "how-to" to replace a 32-bit-Gentoo by a 64-bit- |
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Gentoo? Do I have to format the harddisk (and rebuild everything from |
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scratch), oder can I just keep all the (postfix, apache...) configuration |
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in /etc, all my personal stuff in /usr/local and all the data in /var |
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and just install a 64-bit kernel in /boot? (Of course, with all its |
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dependencies like kernel modules and "system-near" binaries and all |
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that.) |
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-Matt |
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