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    SubjectRe: [Y2038][time namespaces] Question regarding CLOCK_REALTIME support plans in Linux time namespaces
    Hi!
    > Virtualization is the right answer to the testing problem and if people
    > really insist on running their broken legacy apps past 2038, then stick
    > them into a VM and charge boatloads of money for that service.

    Let me just emphasise this with a short story. Before I release LTP I do
    a lot of pre-release testruns to make sure that all tests works well on
    a different distributions and kernel versions.

    Before I wrote a script that automated this[1] i.e. runs all the tests in
    qemu and filters out the interesting results it took me a few days of
    manual labor to finish the task. Now I just schedulle the jobs and after
    a day or two I get the results. Even if the tested kernel crashes, which
    happens a lot, the machine is just restarted automatically and the
    testrun carries on with a next test. All in all the work that has been
    put into the solution wasn't that big to begin with it took me a week to
    write a first prototype from a scratch.

    [1] https://github.com/metan-ucw/runltp-ng

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    Cyril Hrubis
    chrubis@suse.cz

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