| Date | Sat, 31 May 2014 09:59:56 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC 06/32] isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027 | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > isofs uses a 'char' variable to load the number of years since > 1900 for an inode timestamp. On architectures that use a signed > char type by default, this results in an invalid date for > anything beyond 2027. > > This adds a cast to 'u8' for the year number, which should extend > the shelf life of the file system until 2155.
Oops, the CD archive of my scanned Napoleon manuscripts no longer has the right file date? ;-)
Are there any practical uses of representating dates between 1772 and 1900 on CD/DVD?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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