[PATCH 2/4] tests/xstatx.c: fix stat syscall tests on mips64

[James Cowgill]

On 11/08/16 03:24, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:38:43AM +0100, James Cowgill wrote:
>> For historical reasons the kernel struct stat represents times as unsigned
>> 32-bit integers on mips64. Therefore, while it's possible to give a file a
>> timestamp before 1970 with futimens, reading the same timestamp through
>> struct stat will give a positive time (around 2106).
>> Workaround by using positive timestamps for testing on mips64.
> 
> Does it meand that strace also should print a positive time on mips64?

Yes, any files with negative timestamps stored in the filesystem will
appear to have positive timestamps between 2038 and 2106 on mips64. This
affects all programs and not just strace. The bug requires lots of work
(new syscalls) to fix properly and I'm not sure it's worth it.

James

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