Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 2023-04-03 23:35, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > Why in the world does grep even care about timestamps on files? > > The same reason 'awk' does. grep calls stat, fstat, etc., and the call > fails with errno == EOVERFLOW if the file's timestamp is past the year 2038. > > For the same reason I expect that awk, too, should use AC_SYS_YEAR2038 > or its equivalent.
Wow! That's all news to me! I will have to look into this. Thanks, Arnold
