Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-11-11 Thread Sam James
> On 12 Nov 2022, at 02:20, Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha > wrote: > > Sam James writes: >>> On 11 Nov 2022, at 09:19, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> We need to support legacy binaries on i386. Few libraries are >>> explicitly dual-ABI. Whether it's safe to switch libraries above glibc >>> to

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-11-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
Sam James writes: >> On 11 Nov 2022, at 09:19, Florian Weimer wrote: >> We need to support legacy binaries on i386. Few libraries are >> explicitly dual-ABI. Whether it's safe to switch libraries above glibc >> to LFS or time64 needs to be evaluated on a per-library basis. For most >>

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-11-11 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2022-11-11 03:38, Florian Weimer wrote: But that said, these binaries are broken anyway in 2038? No, I expect users to run them in time-shifted VMs or containers. That's reasonable for systems where accurate timestamps are not important and where time_t width mismatches would just get in

Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?

2022-11-11 Thread Aaron Ballman
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 4:05 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 2022-11-10 10:19, Aaron Ballman wrote: > > In terms of the Clang side of things, I don't think we've formed any > > sort of official stance on how to handle that yet. It's UB (you can > > declare the C standard library interface without UB

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-11-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sam James: >> On 11 Nov 2022, at 09:19, Florian Weimer wrote: >> >> * Sam James: >> >>> In Gentoo, we've been planning out what we should do for time64 on >>> glibc [0] and concluded that we need some support in glibc for a newer >>> option. I'll outline why below. >>> >>> Proposal: glibc

Re: On time64 and Large File Support

2022-11-11 Thread Sam James
> On 11 Nov 2022, at 09:19, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Sam James: > >> In Gentoo, we've been planning out what we should do for time64 on >> glibc [0] and concluded that we need some support in glibc for a newer >> option. I'll outline why below. >> >> Proposal: glibc gains two new

Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?

2022-11-11 Thread Sam James
> On 10 Nov 2022, at 17:16, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > I’m the closest thing Autoconf has to a lead maintainer at present. > > It’s come to my attention (via https://lwn.net/Articles/913505/ and > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PortingToModernC) that GCC and > Clang both plan to disable

RE: [PATCH] Basic support for checking NFSv4 ACLs in Linux

2022-11-11 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Hi Andreas, > Historically, I've suggested taking care of these kinds of things in the > richacl project, but that effort has been shot down upstream, and that > project has been dead for a long time. I think I have complete picture now. I also think that eventually I can eventually fix