Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 21:24:39 UTC 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 04:21 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
>> On 11/19/2009 04:13 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>>> On 11/18/2009 09:23 PM, King InuYasha wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Ikem Krueger
>>>>
>>>> 1: Date/Time stamp, Unix time doesn't work in 32-bit past 2038 (not
>>>> really affecting us much, most of us will replace our PCs long before then)
>>>
>>> I believe even 32-bit kernels now keep the time in a 64-bit integer.
>>> This shouldn't apply any more.
>>
>> Sure it does -- time_t in userland is 32-bit, and that's what applications
>> are using, and what the system call interface supports.
>>
>
> Problematic, but we do have 29 years to fix it :)

Hah ... yeah because 32bit machines will be relevant by then...

Can I complain that fedora does not work on my 29+ years old system
right now (that I don't even have)




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