linux-kernel - Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 04/20] mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry

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Message-ID: <c508fe0116b77ff0496ebb17a69f756c47be62b7.camel@codethink.co.uk>
Date:   Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:14:28 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH 04/20] mount: Add mount warning for impending
 timestamp expiry

On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 18:49 -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> The warning reuses the uptime max of 30 years used by the
> setitimeofday().
> 
> Note that the warning is only added for new filesystem mounts
> through the mount syscall. Automounts do not have the same warning.
[...]

Another thing - perhaps this warning should be suppressed for read-only 
mounts?

Ben.
 
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