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Pull more y2038 work from Arnd Bergman: y2038: convert more syscalls Here is another set of system call changes to prepare the change over to 64-bit time_t. As before, the strategy is to change system calls that take a 'struct timespec' argument over to 'struct __kernel_timespec', which for now is defined to be the same but will get redefined to use a 64-bit time_t argument once we are ready to modify the system call tables. The major change from previous patches is that the plan is no longer to directly use the 'compat' system calls for providing compatibility with the existing 32-bit time_t based entry points. Instead, we rename the compat code to something that makes more sense on 32-bit architectures, e.g. compat_timespec becomes old_timespec32. With the renamed types in place, change over the 'stat' and 'utimes' families of system calls, sched_rr_get_interval, recvmmsg and rt_sigtimedwait. Another series for poll, select and io_pgetevents is currently being tested.
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