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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2024-04-19 14:38:17 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2024-04-19 14:38:17 +0200
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login: Use unsigned 32-bit types for seconds-since-epoch
These fields store timestamps when the system was running.  No Linux
systems existed before 1970, so these values are unused.  Switching
to unsigned types allows continued use of the existing struct layouts
beyond the year 2038.

The intent is to give distributions more time to switch to improved
interfaces that also avoid locking/data corruption issues.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h b/sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h
index 34b4afbc6a..ed0df9bd81 100644
--- a/sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h
+++ b/sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ struct utmpx
   __int32_t ut_session;		/* Session ID, used for windowing.  */
   struct
   {
-    __int32_t tv_sec;		/* Seconds.  */
+    __uint32_t tv_sec;		/* Seconds.  */
     __int32_t tv_usec;		/* Microseconds.  */
   } ut_tv;			/* Time entry was made.  */
 #else