[Development] Help requested: 32-bit and the year 2038

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Feb 9 19:04:25 CET 2023


On Tuesday, 31 January 2023 15:21:47 PST Thiago Macieira wrote:
> If it's not going to be in the near future, I *can* modify the patch to
> detect that the new system call is not implemented and then fall back to
> the old one. That would mean that every contended mutex or semaphore will
> incur two system calls instead of 1 on Linux 5.0 or older (which I find
> acceptable; just upgrade to regain performance).
> 
> Let me know what the community prefers. I don't have an opinion.

It's been over a week, with no opinions.

I have abandoned the patch and closed the task as "Won't Do".

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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