Re: coreutils-8.14.116-1e18d on Linux/HPPA

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/05/2012 01:01 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> The limit appears to be INT_MAX.
>>
>> Oh, so time_t is 64 bit there?
> 
> No, time_t is typedefed to 'long int' (32-bit but signed) on this platform.

Right, so if time_t is changed to 64 bit there in future,
the test would be too restrictive?
Or perhaps there would be some other internal mechanism
employed as we approach 2038, meaning the code would have to change.
So I'm leaning towards the deeper probing and avoidance,
done in the shell script.

cheers,
Pádraig.