[PATCH 04/19] y2038: introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_TIME

2015-05-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
There are a total of system calls (aside from ioctl) that pass a time_t or derived data structure as an argument, and in order to extend time_t to 64-bit, we have to replace them with new system calls and keep providing backwards compatibility. To avoid adding completely new and untested code for

[PATCH 04/19] y2038: introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_TIME

2015-05-06 Thread Arnd Bergmann
There are a total of system calls (aside from ioctl) that pass a time_t or derived data structure as an argument, and in order to extend time_t to 64-bit, we have to replace them with new system calls and keep providing backwards compatibility. To avoid adding completely new and untested code for