On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> I would suggest to not allow building support for 64-bit time_t
> on a glibc with old kernel headers because of this, but I don't
> know how hard that is to do in glibc. It is probably safe to

Increasing the minimum kernel headers version globally in glibc is easy 
(just change LIBC_LINUX_VERSION in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.ac).  
It's also probably less controversial than increasing the minimum runtime 
version (we require 3.2 or later headers unconditionally, but still allow 
2.6.32 kernels at runtime on x86_64 and x86).

Increasing the minimum just for architectures that currently have 32-bit 
time_t, without changing the runtime minimum, would be trickier.

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Joseph S. Myers
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