From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:28:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:28:32 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:23180 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:28:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:29:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Jesper Juhl cc: barubary@cox.net, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ISO9660 bug and loopback driver bug - a bigger problem then it would appear? In-Reply-To: <3C7C1797.7050604@dif.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Jesper Juhl wrote: [SNIPPED year 2100 "bug"] [SNIPPED year 2100 "bug" --fix!] > > If the above is indeed correct, wouldn't it then be better to just do > those changes in 2.5.x instead of 2.4.x (and then maybe backport them > later)... I suggest the changes wait until Version 99.99. Many of the File Systems affected won't even exist 98 years from now -and an 'int' will probably be 256 bits. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). 111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321