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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:41:21 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: David Polakovic <email@...lakovic.space>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: proposition for fixing Y292B bug
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:05:18AM +0200, David Polakovic wrote:
> Hello dear developers and enthusiasts.
>
> My name is David and recently I wrote a blog post about "necessity"
> of fixing 64-bit signed integer overflow of time_t, sometime in year
> 292 billion. I proposed this to simply have software complete solution
> for timekeeping. The blog had somewhat nice feedback and few people
> told me to write to your mailing list.
>
> As I mention in the list, I am no way experienced enough in kernel
> space to turn this into full merge request, so I post it to you and
> if anyone would like to build on this idea, it is GPLd for your convenience.
>
> Any feedback is highly appreciated so please, include me in CC's.
>
> The blog is written with funny attitude, but it is in no way meant to
> be joke, parody or insult.
> https://dpolakovic.space/blogs/y292b
Reading your paper, it seems like the userspace solution is to introduce bigger
int type (i.e. int128/bigint); and you want the same to apply to kernel, right?
Also, if that happens, I think C also needs built-in bigint type.
Confused...
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