On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 11:40, Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it> wrote:
Il 31/12/2020 alle 16:30, Warner Losh ha scritto:

>On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 1:10 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
[...]
>>time_t these days tends to be 64 bits, and I think at least the Linux
>>file systems store them that way.
>
>Time_t was still 32 bits last I checked on i386 and a few others...

On recent Linux/i386 kernels it's actually 64 bits. In practice, only
users who are stuck with old i386 Linux versions will have a problem.

Do you happen to know what the cutoff is?  Are 2.6 kernels (still very common) safe?  3.x?  4.x?

-Henry